If we have 60 amendments and each one of them is valuable, and we agree to exempt them by majority vote from this bill right now, and we acknowledge that they are valuable, what is the problem with exempting 40 different things, if we acknowledge right now that they are valuable? If they are valuable things, then your bill needs to be destroyed, or limited, or restricted to that extent. That is the point I am making.
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