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Roy Blunt: I want to say in response that I am not quite as confident, and maybe you're not confident either, that law doesn't meet…

On the recordApril 17, 2008
I want to say in response that I am not quite as confident, and maybe you're not confident either, that law doesn't meet all of the circumstances that occur. And even if it does, that law reaches an anniversary of those particular orders August 1. Again, coming back after Memorial Day, we are suddenly under a situation where even those things that we currently believe are covered, we will begin to have a problem in them expiring. And certainly the things that are not covered, there is no easy way in my view, which may be different than yours, there is no easy way to begin to listen to a new set of conversations that we just determined need to be listened to. That is what that whole debate is about. We don't need to have that debate here. But I have pledged to do everything that I can to bring this to a conclusion.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri

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Discussing concerns about the adequacy of existing laws and upcoming deadlines.

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