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Robert Packwood: “Let me ask the Senator from North Carolina then, if there is no constitutional right, as the Senator from Missouri said…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 1994
Let me ask the Senator from North Carolina then, if there is no constitutional right, as the Senator from Missouri said, I assume the Senator's amendment could not stop any money, if there was no constitutional right.
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Robert Packwood
Republican · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is questioning the implications of a proposed amendment regarding constitutional rights.

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