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Charles W. Stenholm: “I most certainly would not, because I absolutely disagree with the intent of gentleman's amendment. Even though that…”

On the recordJune 8, 1999
I most certainly would not, because I absolutely disagree with the intent of gentleman's amendment. Even though that sounds very reasonable, it completely overlooks one of the fundamental areas I disagree with, that we do not need to be assisting our ranchers with predator control. The gentleman ought to come to the Seventeenth District of Texas and see what happens to livestock and what would happen under gentleman's proposal. I just respectfully differ with the gentleman regarding what the gentleman intends and would like to do. I have a real life example in my district, which gets these funds, where we do better without them.
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Opposing an amendment related to predator control funding during a House debate.

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