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John Sarbanes: “I say to my colleague that that is not the consent decree which the Bush administration approved and which they…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1997
I say to my colleague that that is not the consent decree which the Bush administration approved and which they presented forward as a major accomplishment. That is an interesting argument, but the Senator should have used it in 1989, at the time the Bush administration sanctioned this consent decree. Otherwise, you never would have had an election officer for the 1996 election. It is treated as though that is a normal course of events. That is a major part of the bargain that was reached in the consent decree, keeping an election officer. The other part of the bargain was that the Government would pay the cost for the supervised election.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland
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Discussing the consent decree approved by the Bush administration regarding election oversight.

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