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Rob Portman: “This is bipartisan. This does not require any Federal funds, as the gentlemen know. It is an authorization simply for…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
This is bipartisan. This does not require any Federal funds, as the gentlemen know. It is an authorization simply for the Park Service to work with a private group that has been working with the Park Service in any case for the past couple of years. This group has indeed moved forward in a very constructive way, bringing in all elements of our community, as well as the entire country in terms of underground railroad experience, to come up with an Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which would be an interpretive center.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio
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Discussing bipartisan legislation for the Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

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