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James T. Callahan: If I may reclaim my time, that is because they are doing too much. We are not doing too much. We are trying to…

On the recordJuly 30, 1997
If I may reclaim my time, that is because they are doing too much. We are not doing too much. We are trying to facilitate our businesspeople in this country the opportunity to make them competitive doing business in foreign countries. If that is wrong, then I am wrong. But I am not wrong. The gentleman is wrong in trying to abolish this agency.
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James T. Callahan
Oklahoma

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Defending the role of an agency during a debate on its potential abolition.

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