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Barney Frank: so apparently four or five Members have been able to do this. I will repeat that we have heard no substantive defense of…

On the recordNovember 2, 2005
so apparently four or five Members have been able to do this. I will repeat that we have heard no substantive defense of why this came. I would agree with what the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Zoe Lofgren) said, sometimes you do not know something is controversial; but once you learn that it is, then you have the regular procedure.
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Barney Frank
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