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Max Baucus: Maybe one solution here--there is no perfect solution. Maybe one solution might be to vote on this amendment, and…

On the recordMarch 4, 1998
Maybe one solution here--there is no perfect solution. Maybe one solution might be to vote on this amendment, and Senators who have concerns about this amendment can state them, that is, they are voting for it kind of on reservation or something like that, pending information that they get, and reserve the opportunity to offer amendments at a later time. I say that because this amendment, I suspect, is going to pass. Therefore, that will have passed and we will be done with it. Then we can still address the concerns that the Senator from Florida may or may not have, and having passed this amendment doesn't put him in a disadvantageous position.
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Max Baucus
Democratic · Montana

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Discussing a proposed amendment and the possibility of addressing concerns later.

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