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Dan Coats: “I am not going to insist on my rights to allow this amendment to tie up this appropriations bill. I think there is…”

On the recordJune 18, 1998
I am not going to insist on my rights to allow this amendment to tie up this appropriations bill. I think there is important work in the Senate that needs to be done. I will just say to my fellow Senators, this is an issue that is not going to go away. I said it in 1990. I have said it every year since. It has passed the Senate five times, sometimes by unanimous consent, sometimes by 94 votes. Importing States are at a tremendous disadvantage, and they have no say in the ways in which they can manage their own environmental destiny as it regards municipal solid waste.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana
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Discussing the importance of addressing environmental issues related to municipal solid waste.

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