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Norman D. Dicks: “I think that we ought to accept what the gentlewoman from California has said here. She is willing to accept this…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1997
I think that we ought to accept what the gentlewoman from California has said here. She is willing to accept this compromise. I would like to see this be a bipartisan study supported on both sides of the aisle, and I would urge that we all yield back our time and have a vote and move forward.
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Norman D. Dicks

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Advocating for a bipartisan study during a discussion on a compromise.

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