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Cardiss Collins: “This is not the bill we had last year. This is a totally different bill than the bill we had last year. This is a new…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 1995
This is not the bill we had last year. This is a totally different bill than the bill we had last year. This is a new bill, as the gentleman very well knows. It just seems to me we cannot compare those two at this point in time.
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Cardiss Collins
Democratic · Illinois

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Clarifying differences between current and previous legislation during a floor debate.

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