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David Obey: “How do I make certain that the words which are going to be read back are the words to which I was objecting? Because the…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
How do I make certain that the words which are going to be read back are the words to which I was objecting? Because the words to which I was objecting were the words that indicated that the gentleman from Illinois had uttered mistruths and had known that. Those are the words that I am specifically addressing. The gentleman keeps talking about the Tongass. It will be 90 percent in wilderness, and he knows it, and you told a mistruth every time on this issue, and you know that it is a mistruth. There is absolutely no truth, there is no truth.
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David Obey
Wisconsin
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Addressing objections to statements made by a colleague regarding the Tongass.

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