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Trent Lott: “I say this somewhat facetiously but also somewhat seriously. We have a Base Closure Commission to deal with the fact…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1994
I say this somewhat facetiously but also somewhat seriously. We have a Base Closure Commission to deal with the fact that some bases needed to be closed and we could not deal with the politics of it. We had a commission not exactly like this, but we had one that helped us try to address the problem of Social Security back in the 1980's. Of course, we had the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings-Mack legislation to try to deal with getting control of the deficit. Are we just going to create one commission after another and basically turn our responsibility over to a series of commissions and only rubber stamp what they do?
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Discussing the reliance on commissions for addressing political issues.

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