On the recordMarch 11, 2003
As the Senator from Illinois knows, this is the fourth Congress in which this legislation has been considered. It has gone through committee in previous Congresses. As I mentioned before, there are some changes to this legislation, but the basic underlying procedure that we attempt to ban is one that is very familiar to the Senator from Illinois and very familiar to other Members. It is obviously familiar to members of the committee. While this is a bill that, again, I would argue has some differences in it that are important from a constitutional perspective, this is an issue very familiar to every Member of the Senate and there was not really a sense that this was one that needed to go through the process again.
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