Patrick Moynihan: “I rise to acknowledge what would be, not the first time, an error. I…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1995

I rise to acknowledge what would be, not the first time, an error. I said recently just a moment ago that the Department of Health and Human Services has been silent on the subject of this atrocious legislation. I am wrong, sir. I have just been handed an amendment which asks us to see that no position, no full-time position in the Department of Health and Human Services be eliminated. So we will look after--I am beginning to believe what I hear about the bureaucracy.

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Patrick Moynihan

Illinois

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Addressing an amendment related to the Department of Health and Human Services during a legislative session.

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