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Pat Meehan: “Reclaiming my time, this sounds like an amendment that we could support. But these amendments, sometimes we need to go…”

On the recordJuly 20, 1998
Reclaiming my time, this sounds like an amendment that we could support. But these amendments, sometimes we need to go through the process to make sure. We have a situation where voter turnout in this country is an embarrassment, and I would not want to see us support any kind of an effort that would try to reduce activity at polling places, getting people to the polls.
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Pat Meehan
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the importance of voter turnout and the need to support amendments that encourage polling place activity.

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