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Gary Ackerman: “Let me suggest to your very sanctimonious self that it was the chairman of this very committee that said my amendment…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2004
Let me suggest to your very sanctimonious self that it was the chairman of this very committee that said my amendment was redundant. The author of the bill, rather, who said that the amendment was redundant, that what I am trying to do is already in the bill.
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Gary Ackerman
New York

Editor's note · Context

Addressing a disagreement over the redundancy of an amendment during committee discussion.

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