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Steny Hoyer: I simply want to say that we intend, as we have said, and one of the reasons we are not meeting Friday is because we…

On the recordJanuary 31, 2007
I simply want to say that we intend, as we have said, and one of the reasons we are not meeting Friday is because we have told committees we want them to do the regular order, have hearings, have votes in committee, bring bills to the Rules Committee, allow amendments, and as a result, they have said that is going to take us a little more time. So we do not have work to do. And we are not going to hold Members here, as Roy Blunt and I have discussed, if we don't have work to do. But we are going to try to get to substance.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the legislative process and the importance of regular order in committee work.

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