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On the recordOctober 11, 2000
If I become chairman of the conference, I will have some power to determine the parameters of how it would be run. I am the lowly chairman of the subcommittee which happened to author this wonderful and needed bankruptcy reform measure. To the extent that we can expedite this matter, I have tried to cooperate on the floor, as I have in all stages of these procedures. I want this thing to move on; and whatever the conference requires of its members, I will accede in doing.
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Hon. George W. Gekas
Pennsylvania
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Discussing his role in the bankruptcy reform measure during a conference.

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