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Melvin Watt: “I will give him the same assurance. And I said it in my statement because I just got the gentleman's amendment yesterday…”

On the recordNovember 15, 2007
I will give him the same assurance. And I said it in my statement because I just got the gentleman's amendment yesterday or the day before, and I confess that my amendment to his amendment may not accomplish everything that both of us are trying to accomplish either, which is why I said we are going to have to continue to work on this, and I am certainly willing to continue to work with him. I understand exactly what the gentleman is trying to achieve. We share that objective. But we want to make sure that the concerns I raise don't get washed up in the ``knowingly'' term that the gentleman used.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina
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Discussing collaboration on amendments during a legislative debate.

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