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Byron Dorgan: “I guess what I would encourage us to do is to work this evening and tomorrow morning to see if we can craft a solution…”

On the recordJuly 23, 1996
I guess what I would encourage us to do is to work this evening and tomorrow morning to see if we can craft a solution to include in this bill that solves the problem. As the Senator knows, he has been a veteran of these many battles in the Congress directing the Secretary to study something, suggestions that it may or may not get solved, and it may or may not get solved in the next 5 years.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing the need for a solution to be included in a bill.

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