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Melvin Watt: “Just for the brief purpose of assuring the gentleman that this is not a radical change. January 1995, January 23, 1995…”

On the recordFebruary 8, 1995
Just for the brief purpose of assuring the gentleman that this is not a radical change. January 1995, January 23, 1995, this year, the Supreme Court said that this is the law. And all I am trying to do is stop them from changing the law. I want them to put the law in as the Supreme Court has said it is. This is not a change from existing law. I assure the gentleman.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Addressing the interpretation of a Supreme Court ruling during a legislative discussion.

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