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Melvin Watt: I am just trying to be clear, under your amendment, who would make this determination of whether it is outside the norm?…

On the recordApril 18, 2007
I am just trying to be clear, under your amendment, who would make this determination of whether it is outside the norm? Where would the information come from? Has anybody done a cost analysis of what it would cost to obtain this information?
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Questioning the implications of an amendment during a legislative debate.

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