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James T. Callahan: “Reclaiming my time, yes, I am, and that is why I was trying to express, I will be happy to work with the gentleman to…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2000
Reclaiming my time, yes, I am, and that is why I was trying to express, I will be happy to work with the gentleman to try to get the money. I would not like to reconstruct my bill at this time in order to give an additional $2.5 million to the agency, but I will be happy to work with the gentleman to try to get that, if the gentleman reads the language we already have it in the report or in the bill. It is a very lengthy report, which says almost what the gentleman is saying, whereby we are instructing them to do that. So I would think that there would be no need for this. But to answer the gentleman's question, yes, I will be happy to work with the gentleman to try to facilitate your goal.
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James T. Callahan
Oklahoma
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Discussing funding and collaboration on a bill during a House floor debate.

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