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Harry Reid: One final question to the leader. We have, as I understand it, about 203 days left until the Y2K date arrives. If we…

On the recordJune 10, 1999
One final question to the leader. We have, as I understand it, about 203 days left until the Y2K date arrives. If we wait now until Tuesday to vote on this, we are going to have less than 200 days to get this legislation passed, to get it to conference, to get it to the President. Each day that goes by, it seems to me, is very critical to the passage of this legislation. Is that not true?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the urgency of passing Y2K legislation.

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