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Barney Frank: “I do not think anyone on our side wants to denigrate the importance of the veterans bill or the Samoan development bill.…”

On the recordApril 9, 1997
I do not think anyone on our side wants to denigrate the importance of the veterans bill or the Samoan development bill. My question is, why did we not do them yesterday? We are not objecting to doing those bills, but Monday and Tuesday are the regular suspension days. We hardly worked ourselves into a lather yesterday. Our question is, given these important bills, why did we not do them on the regular suspension day rather than have to do an extraordinary procedure to take them up today?
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Questioning the scheduling of the veterans and Samoan development bills during House floor debate.

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