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Dusty Johnson: So we have maintained that precedent and not moved away from the tradition in this country that we have had in this body…

On the recordJune 12, 1997
So we have maintained that precedent and not moved away from the tradition in this country that we have had in this body of dealing directly with legislation so that it may in a timely fashion get to the people who need it. It would have been, I think, a tremendous loss and would have been a bad precedent for the future if we had not in fact voted down legislation with controversial issues and used disaster legislation as a political vehicle. So I think that we have won the short-term battle to get help to people who need it but also won the long-term battle for people who need legislation.
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Dusty Johnson
Republican · South Dakota

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Discussing the importance of maintaining legislative integrity in disaster legislation.

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