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Andrea Joy Campbell: “We have had hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary and in the subcommittee as well; and I am grateful to the…”

On the recordJune 22, 2000
We have had hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary and in the subcommittee as well; and I am grateful to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) for allowing that. So we have done all we can except for scheduling a markup in that committee. Secondly, the cost that we are proposing here is less than one-half of one-thousandth of a percent of the Department of Justice budget, and so I doubt that it really will have anything more than the symbolic value which is the entire purpose of my amendment.
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Andrea Joy Campbell
Massachusetts

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Discussing the progress of a legislative amendment in the Committee on the Judiciary.

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