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Barbara Mikulski: “Let me understand the consequences of what the Senator from Oklahoma is recommending. If the emergency designation is…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1998
Let me understand the consequences of what the Senator from Oklahoma is recommending. If the emergency designation is removed, the phrase ``emergency designation,'' then what are the consequences to that? Does that mean we have to find offsets? What would be the consequences of following the Senator's suggestion?
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

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Questioning the implications of removing the emergency designation during a Senate debate.

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