I would want to say to my friend from Florida, we need to work on this some more, but what more work does the gentleman have in mind? This is no different from the committee amendment. We have gone through this in the Committee on the Judiciary. That is the only way it got out to the floor.
John Conyers: “I would want to say to my friend from Florida, we need to work on this some more, but what more work does the gentleman…”
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