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Andrea Joy Campbell: I believe that every author of an amendment ought to have the right to put it in the way that he or she thinks is best…

On the recordJuly 14, 1998
I believe that every author of an amendment ought to have the right to put it in the way that he or she thinks is best, so I will not object. But my reason for reserving the right to object was to ask the gentleman from California, if he is going back and amending his amendment, the gentleman might recall the discussion that we had before the break, where I thought that inadvertently the gentleman had gone out and excluded, struck from the bill, the provision against coordination. Truly, in the interest of just giving the gentleman the best shot at his amendment, if the gentleman is going to go back and amend his amendment, all it would take to get rid of that issue entirely would be to say that the gentleman is striking section 301(20)(B)(1) instead of (301)(20)(B), if one reads what I am saying. I offer this merely from the point of view of helping.
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Andrea Joy Campbell
Massachusetts

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Discussing amendments and provisions in a bill during a floor debate.

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