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Scott Fitzgerald: “Is it true that only in the last 48 hours this agreement was made, and in only 48 hours we are expected, without a…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2001
Is it true that only in the last 48 hours this agreement was made, and in only 48 hours we are expected, without a hearing, without any consultation or advice or information provided to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, we are taking on this appropriations bill an issue that entails billions of dollars of Illinois taxpayers' money and billions of dollars of national taxpayers' money? Is it true we are going to try to push this through in order that it can be done on a Defense appropriations bill, I ask my colleague?
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Scott Fitzgerald
Republican · Wisconsin
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Questioning the lack of consultation on a significant appropriations bill during Senate debate.

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