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Benjamin Gilman: “We tried to accommodate the witness and he was not able to rearrange his schedule. I understand that, in any event, the…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 1998
We tried to accommodate the witness and he was not able to rearrange his schedule. I understand that, in any event, the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, as the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Leach] will testify, held a hearing on this issue in June of 1997, as well as one hearing in a prior Congress in December of 1996. Meanwhile, the Senate passed this measure. It is not a controversial measure, and if we can arrange for the appropriate witnesses to appear, we will certainly conduct a hearing to dig into the issues that the gentleman is raising with regard to the financing. There are other bills and resolutions on this general subject pending before our committee, but the chairman of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services and I thought that given the fact that survivors are passing away every day while awaiting satisfaction of just claims, that we should move the bill as expeditiously as possible.
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Benjamin Gilman
New York
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Discussing the need for hearings on a bill related to claims for survivors.

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