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Arlen Specter: “At a caucus discussion earlier today, I had a brief colloquy with my distinguished colleague from Oklahoma, Senator…”

On the recordMarch 6, 2001
At a caucus discussion earlier today, I had a brief colloquy with my distinguished colleague from Oklahoma, Senator Nickles, which I would like to repeat the essence of now. That went to the issue of whether this legislative prohibition against issuing substantially the same rule would be an effective bar or, as one of the authors and having coauthored the statement of legislative intent, a new regulation would pass muster without a likely bar from the limitation of substantiality or substantially the same.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing legislative prohibitions on issuing similar rules during a caucus.

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