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David Cay Johnston: “This is a waste of time. If you want to kill this bill, enact this Glenn-Chafee amendment, beat your chest, feel good…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1995
This is a waste of time. If you want to kill this bill, enact this Glenn-Chafee amendment, beat your chest, feel good about it. It has risk assessment in the title of the bill, but it amounts to nothing, zero.
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing the Glenn-Chafee amendment during a debate on a bill.

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