James M. Jeffords: “I commend the Senator. His expertise in this area has helped us…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1997

I commend the Senator. His expertise in this area has helped us greatly and I am sure will lead us to a final conclusion here. I would also like to point out as another member of a small State, how we would suffer if we had to rely upon others, since we have no resources to do any of this investigation ourself. We would be placed in a position without uniformity to have to rely on some big State or something to tell us what we should or should not do. We really have no ability in ourselves to protect our citizens, that we would like to. I wonder if you would agree with that as well?

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Discussing the challenges faced by small states in conducting investigations.

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