On the recordJuly 14, 1998
I simply want to say to my friend from California (Mr. Thomas) and I was going to ask him: I heard him say that anyone who is serious about an amendment should come to him. As I looked at the list of amendments and at the people who offered them, it had not previously occurred to me that being serious about an amendment was a prerequisite for offering one. Is this a new, and it is my time, is this a new rule that will only people on his side who are serious about their amendments will be allowed to offer them? Because if the people who are offering unserious amendments for unserious reasons were to be excluded, we could probably finish this in about an hour.
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