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Frank Pallone: The recess is over. We are back. We have gotten the message from Speaker Gingrich that he does not want to move on this…

On the recordApril 21, 1998
The recess is over. We are back. We have gotten the message from Speaker Gingrich that he does not want to move on this tobacco settlement. We are sending the message back to the Republican leadership that that is not acceptable to us as Democrats, and that we are going to keep fighting and keep bringing this up until they agree to move meaningful tobacco legislation.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey

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Addressing the need for action on tobacco legislation during a special order.

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