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Ralph Lee Abraham: “Our understanding is, with some changes which we made prior to introducing the amendment here today, it was to provide…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1995
Our understanding is, with some changes which we made prior to introducing the amendment here today, it was to provide sort of a fail-safe to ensure that the concerns that the Senator from Ohio has expressed about the possibility of having the advocate of the Small Business Administration move into areas that were of negligible importance, that might be extraordinarily burdensome to the agencies, to provide a type of a fail-safe by requiring concurrence--in other words, approval-- also, by the Administrator of OIRA.
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Ralph Lee Abraham
Louisiana

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Discussing an amendment related to the Small Business Administration during Senate floor debate.

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