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Joe Barton: I yield myself the final 30 seconds. Madam Chair, only my friend from Massachusetts could filibuster in a 5-minute…

On the recordMay 6, 2010
I yield myself the final 30 seconds. Madam Chair, only my friend from Massachusetts could filibuster in a 5-minute time-limited debate. Those last comments, as far as I could tell and to the extent they were substantive, were absolutely true. We do eliminate subsection G, and that is all we eliminate. That is the section that creates the reloan provision. So he is right about that. I think he is misinformed about the rest of his comments, and I would hope that he would support the elimination of one little subsection, subsection G. Vote "yes" on the Barton amendment.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas
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May 6, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing an amendment related to the elimination of a specific subsection in a legislative proposal.

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