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Lincoln Chafee: I do want to stress, once again, as I said before, that killing the technical corrections bill is not going to restore…

On the recordJuly 8, 1998
I do want to stress, once again, as I said before, that killing the technical corrections bill is not going to restore any $17 billion. The technical corrections bill has nothing to do with that. It does not mention it, does not involve it at all. That was all taken care of in the conference report. Indeed, we voted three times on that measure. We voted on the whole matter of the $17 billion being used in connection with the ISTEA II legislation. We voted on it twice in connection with the budget, and we voted on it once when we did the conference report here. So, Mr. President, I do want to stress that should Senator Murray's appeal of the ruling of the Chair be successful, the entire IRS reform bill would effectively die. And so I urge my colleagues to uphold the ruling of the Chair. I now move to table Senator Murray's appeal of the ruling of the Chair.
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island

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Discussing the implications of the technical corrections bill and IRS reform during Senate debate.

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