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Trent Lott: “I still hold out hope that during the session tomorrow Senators will be able to agree to a small, limited number of…”

On the recordMarch 9, 1999
I still hold out hope that during the session tomorrow Senators will be able to agree to a small, limited number of amendments remaining to the pending education flexibility bill and that our Democratic colleagues will then allow the Senate to conduct a passage vote on this very important bill, which has broad support, which would give the rest of the country, along with 12 other States, this flexibility to allow the paperwork, bureaucracy, to be waived so we could get the education money to the schools, to the children, where it really belongs. I hate to see this delay taking place on this broad bipartisan bill.
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Discussing the need for a cloture motion on the education flexibility bill.

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