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On the recordJune 6, 2000
if I might interject myself, as this is drawn, I can easily amend it so that the next President can bring about the necessary infrastructure of studies and have them completed on a timetable to accelerate it so it is not tied to December. The way this is drawn, it is due in December. But I do not interpret that to preclude an earlier assessment by the next President. What I say to the Senator most respectfully is, practically speaking, under the current administration you have several years in which to do this work and bring it up to date. It simply has not been done. I just think, practically speaking, this President would be ill-advised to try in the remaining period of a few months to do this type of important thing and to have these studies suddenly brought up.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the timeline for infrastructure studies and the role of the next President.

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