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Angie Craig: “Those records comport with what I have said. I wanted to make sure I was not inaccurate. My concern is that we will have…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2000
Those records comport with what I have said. I wanted to make sure I was not inaccurate. My concern is that we will have not completed our work on the floor by the deadline unless we can gain the kind of cooperative effort to move these pieces of legislation. And by your observation, I was accurate in the sense that five were debated and passed or voted on after the October deadline of 1987.
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing legislative deadlines and the need for cooperation in passing legislation.

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