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Tom Harkin: “The Thompson amendment, which is the pending amendment, seeks to strike from the bill a provision that was incorporated…”

On the recordJuly 29, 1998
The Thompson amendment, which is the pending amendment, seeks to strike from the bill a provision that was incorporated at the committee level--subcommittee level and committee level--by unanimous consent. I don't know of any votes that were held on it. It seemed to be adopted overwhelmingly. No one raised any questions about it in full committee or anything like that. The provision deals with setting some parameters on procurement policy for the Federal Government, to the maximum extent possible to preclude the Federal Government from purchasing items made by forced or indentured child labor.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing the Thompson amendment related to child labor provisions in a bill.

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