I think this is an honest-to-goodness, legitimate attempt to clarify, and I also think it is an honest-to-goodness attempt to work with the other side of the aisle. Again I want to compliment the gentleman from California for doing that, and I want to go one step further. I think it makes the standard even stronger.
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Most countries cannot stand in that glare, in that spotlight, and I have every confidence in you and Chairman Fleming being able to make a real difference.
I thought he was one of the finest reporters whom I ever had the pleasure to work with.
The African Elephant Conservation Act of 1988 was truly a bipartisan piece of legislation cosponsored by Tony Beilenson, a liberal Democrat from California, and me, a conservative Republican from Texas.
I personally do not think it is going to work, and I think in countries like Zimbabwe and Tanzania, it, first of all, is a slap in the face of these countries that they were not consulted.
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