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David Cay Johnston: “If the Senator will let me answer, the question is, what is a conflict? If one statute requires something, a…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1995
If the Senator will let me answer, the question is, what is a conflict? If one statute requires something, a cost-benefit analysis, which this does, or a risk assessment and the other statute does not, is that a conflict or is that supplementing?
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

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Discussing the interpretation of conflicting statutes during a Senate debate.

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