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Trent Lott: “Unless we get permission for the Banking and Finance Committee provisions to be allowed, and that would be my intent.…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1998
Unless we get permission for the Banking and Finance Committee provisions to be allowed, and that would be my intent. But Senators who have some concerns with it--with the formula, really, the donor States, see this as a way, speaking candidly, to keep a little pressure on this whole issue. Hopefully, we can work their concerns out, and then we would be able to get permission to add the Banking and Finance Committee provisions at that point. But that might be Wednesday of next week.
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Trent Lott

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Discussing the need for permission to add provisions from the Banking and Finance Committee.

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