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Pete Hoekstra: “If the gentleman will yield, I asked the gentleman the specific question about the anglers in Ireland only because I…”

On the recordDecember 1, 1997
If the gentleman will yield, I asked the gentleman the specific question about the anglers in Ireland only because I chair an oversight subcommittee on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and we asked a very simple question of the Executive Branch about a year and a half ago as we began a project called Education and Our Crossroads
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan
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congress.gov
Dec 1, 1997

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