Louis Stokes: “earlier in general debate I made reference to the fact that it was my…”

On the recordJune 26, 1996

earlier in general debate I made reference to the fact that it was my intention to vote for this bill. I said at that time that the bill was not a perfect bill, but because of the fact that the chairman and I had truly worked in a real bipartisan manner to bring to the floor a bill on which he and I both agreed, there were certain parts of the bill that still needed improvement, we were both committed to working on that bill together both here and in conference, and that based upon that I had intended to vote for the bill. Let me just remind the Members of what happened on this floor today that has changed that from my position. Mr. Speaker, earlier today we had $122.4 million in additional cuts by amendments offered on the floor, and this is a bill that already in the area of HUD had been cut $2.3 billion in the bill as reported.

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Louis Stokes

Ohio

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Discussing changes in his position on a bill due to additional cuts during floor debate.

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Louis Stokes: “earlier in general debate I made reference to the fact that it was my intention to vote for this bill. I said at that…”

Editor's note · Context