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David Cay Johnston: “With this bill, the opponents look for ghosts and trouble everywhere, they find it everywhere, and they apply to it the…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1995
With this bill, the opponents look for ghosts and trouble everywhere, they find it everywhere, and they apply to it the wrong solutions. Mr. President, this language is clear, and I do not care who says otherwise. Show me where that is unclear. As I say to my friend from Michigan, his interpretation of his judicial review provision is exactly what ours says. His gives with the left hand a procedural review, takes it away with the right hand in ambiguous language, and interprets that with court cases which he says are clear. But we obviate the problem for any of that by simply saying there is no procedural review. He has a procedural review in his proposal. We do not have that in ours. That is why ours is preferable. It is clearer. It is free of all ambiguity. I yield the floor.
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

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Debating the clarity and effectiveness of a bill's language regarding procedural review.

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