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J. Exon: “I want to take a moment, if I might, to congratulate the Senator from South Carolina, Senator Thurmond, the chairman of…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 1996
I want to take a moment, if I might, to congratulate the Senator from South Carolina, Senator Thurmond, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on which I am pleased to serve, and his counterpart on the Democratic side, Senator Sam Nunn from the State of Georgia. They did an exceptional job in getting finally a defense authorization bill approved that the President said he will sign after vetoing the previous bill. I thought the President was right in that timeframe when he vetoed the bill. I am not happy completely with the bill, as I outlined earlier in remarks on the Senate floor before the vote. But certainly the Senator from South Carolina and the Senator from Georgia did an admirable job in eliminating some of the most obnoxious parts of the defense authorization bill originally and coming to a successful conclusion today where we have passed it in the U.S. Senate.
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J. Exon
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Congratulating Senators Thurmond and Nunn for their work on the defense authorization bill.

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