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On the recordJuly 17, 1998
I am not thrilled about 55 amendments to the Shays-Meehan bill to begin with, but as I add it up, it looks certainly like we could get through this in a shorter period of time... I would hope that we could get through this quickly, maybe work out some kind of an additional agreement to at some point stop the debate and get an up or down vote on the significant proposals before us.
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Pat Meehan
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the timeline and challenges for debating the Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill.

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