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John Conyers: “Mr. Chairman, for the benefit of my distinguished chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), who…”

On the recordMarch 13, 2002
Mr. Chairman, for the benefit of my distinguished chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), who referred to the infamous airline cases where the plaintiffs were given airline coupons, and he illustrates this as really something that is not good, that we should not do it, that occurred in a Federal Court. That was a Federal district court case that the gentleman I think is trying to use as an argument against keeping the law the same way that it is.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan
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Discussing a legal case related to airline coupons during a committee meeting.

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