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On the recordMarch 6, 2019
Mr. Chairman, the intent of the amendment is to establish a committee that parallels the three existing committees and, therefore, would use the same properties as those committees for appointment, et cetera. The gentleman who argued against the last amendment was suggesting that it would be too intrusive to interject too much specificity in the amendment, so I guess we have a flip situation here. But the idea is to parallel the three existing commissions and have the 15-person committee appointed using the same processes. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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