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Kent Conrad: “I say, in answer to my colleague, I agree with the Senator from Arizona, the system is broken. The system is completely…”

On the recordNovember 20, 2004
I say, in answer to my colleague, I agree with the Senator from Arizona, the system is broken. The system is completely broken when we have 3,000 pages dumped on our desk and we are told to vote in 3 hours. Now, that does not make sense. Members do not know what is in this. We find egregious provisions such as this one tucked away that people did not review, did not debate, did not discuss, did not have a chance to amend, have not had a chance to vote on, and all of a sudden it is contained in here. That cannot be.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about the legislative process and the volume of unread material presented for a vote.

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