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Melvin Watt: “the gentleman is focusing on what I struck out of the bill, but he needs to focus on what I put back in the bill…”

On the recordMay 8, 1996
the gentleman is focusing on what I struck out of the bill, but he needs to focus on what I put back in the bill, because I put a lot of his very language back in the bill. We are encouraging the obtaining of this goal by encouragement of the Federal, State and local governments, by promoting and protecting the independent and collective actions of private citizens, organizations and the private sector, the very same things the gentleman has said. I did not take these things out and not put them back in. They are in this amendment, and I am encouraging the gentleman to read my amendment and agree to it.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina
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Discussing amendments to a bill and addressing concerns raised by a colleague.

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