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Barney Frank: “When the gentlewoman says she is not in need of further time, I think she is being very kind to her colleagues in the…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2005
When the gentlewoman says she is not in need of further time, I think she is being very kind to her colleagues in the Republican Study Committee. She is being very kind to our colleagues who miswrote this amendment. The only thing that I would differ with the gentlewoman is she said there are unintended consequences. No, to her they are unintended. To the people who think poor people vote too much, they were intended. But we can work together to fix it. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kanjorski), the ranking member of the subcommittee of jurisdiction here, who has been one of the major architects of what we believe is mostly a very good piece of legislation.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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