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Mark Neumann: “Listening to the gentleman, the phrase ``trust but verify'' comes to mind, that we trust the procedure that has been…”

On the recordApril 17, 1996
Listening to the gentleman, the phrase ``trust but verify'' comes to mind, that we trust the procedure that has been initiated in this Congress will continue and this is very simply a verification that what we have started, to make government cleaner and better for the American people, will continue. ``Trust but verify'' just keeps coming to my mind as I listen to the gentleman.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing the importance of verifying government procedures in Congress.

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