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Pete Sessions: “That is what the Department of Justice, the Clinton Department of Justice, memorandum says, that it has the option. I…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1997
That is what the Department of Justice, the Clinton Department of Justice, memorandum says, that it has the option. I think that's the most plain reading of it, and I suggest to you the union agreed to this reluctantly, preferring not to perhaps but because they had to. I just don't think that would be a fair interpretation of it. I think the most normal interpretation would be that they have the option to do so, and I think this body has the right to say we choose not to fund it. Let's not do it.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the interpretation of a Department of Justice memorandum regarding funding options.

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