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Nick Lampson: we truly do not want to restrict the rights or interests of a community to be able to choose for themselves what they…

On the recordSeptember 4, 2003
we truly do not want to restrict the rights or interests of a community to be able to choose for themselves what they want, and in this case Houston has said let us bring it to the people on November 4. They have the referendum set. They are going to speak. They want to do for themselves what they can do and then reach out to the Federal Government for the assistance that is there for other communities. We do not want the kind of precedent that the gentleman is speaking about set.
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Nick Lampson
Texas

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Discussing local community rights and a referendum in Houston.

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