The bill that I chaired that had sufficiency language goes back something like 8 or 9 years. There was no sufficiency language after that. It was done for one time only. Yet there is sufficiency language for the amendment that was introduced by the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Kolbe]. The people of the State of Arizona, the environmental community is deprived of the opportunity of protesting because of sufficiency language.
Discussing sufficiency language in relation to an amendment during a floor debate.
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