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Melvin Watt: I will not yield. The other side has plenty of time over there. I will be happy to yield after I get through making the…

On the recordSeptember 28, 1995
I will not yield. The other side has plenty of time over there. I will be happy to yield after I get through making the points I want. I do not have the right to ask for three highway patrolmen to come out on the street and decide whether it was proper for me to get a speeding ticket just because I do not like the result. Mr. Chairman, what the gentleman from California [Mr. Bono] is proposing is tantamount to the same thing. We do not have the resources to bring to bear on the traffic ticket that I get out there.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Discussing resource allocation and fairness in legislative proposals.

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