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On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
Well, as the gentleman probably knows, there are some 260 bills that we've sent from the House to the Senate and we look forward to them sending some of those back to us. And my expectation is they will. In addition to that, we are considering a number of pieces of legislation, but they are not yet ripe, and what I mean by that simply is the committee chairs have not signed off that they're ready to go, so we are still, frankly, working with the committees to see what legislation they will have ready to move forward. I know that wasn't very responsive, and I wish I had a more responsive answer but that's the accurate answer
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Jan 27, 2010

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The speaker discusses the status of legislation sent to the Senate and ongoing committee work.

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