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On the recordJune 16, 2005
reclaiming my time, if we offered to work with the gentlewoman to resolve the issue, I think, from where I come from, that resolves the issue. But she has offered something that we do not even know what it does. It takes funds from an area that everyone else is saying they do not want to take it from, I am having a hard time understanding what that precisely means. And I would say we could get both of these amendments in different versions and send them to Georgetown Law School or UVA Law School or George Mason Law School and see if they think there is any change. I understand we offered to work with her. I thought that was really the right thing to do. With that I urge a ``no'' vote on an amendment that I am not sure what it does. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman has expired. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee). The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes appeared to have it.
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Tom Wolf
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