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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

But they are all victims of crime, and we have to recognize them.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

I have seen the victims in Central America. I think in this latest raid, almost all of the people that were brought in yesterday were from Central America.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

I take this personally. We have got to do something because these are my people.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

People who traffic babies have got to go to jail, and they have got to stay there a while, a long time.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

We should ask what happened to them and try to rescue them.

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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia
@sylviarodriguezgarcia· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

We would not have this conversation if there was not a demand for the commodity of human bodies in this horrible industry.

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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia
@sylviarodriguezgarcia· Democratic · TX· Mar 19, 2014

I think we have to really reinvent the challenge that runaways--how they fit into this whole circumstance.

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Jeff Denham
@jeffdenham· Republican · CA· Mar 18, 2014

It is certainly alarming that you wouldn't be focusing on all water bills, certainly in an emergency, where the State has declared an emergency.

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Jeff Denham
@jeffdenham· Republican · CA· Mar 18, 2014

You have to show us what you are for. If you are having an emergency here and you disagree with an approach, then either introduce a bill of your own or show us what you are for.

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Jeff Denham
@jeffdenham· Republican · CA· Mar 18, 2014

We can't wait any longer. We are now in that place that we did not want to be, and I believe there is a better opportunity.

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Jeff Denham
@jeffdenham· Republican · CA· Mar 18, 2014

If California had its priorities right, we would be building water storage instead of a train that may never come.

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Jeff Denham
@jeffdenham· Republican · CA· Mar 18, 2014

Two years ago, the House passed legislation seeking to address the imbalance in the State's water system, and it was only met with criticism and dismissal.

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Doc Hastings
@dochastings· Republican · WA· Mar 18, 2014

We are literally throwing that legacy away by thinking that conservation alone can resolve water shortages, because it can't.

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Doc Hastings
@dochastings· Republican · WA· Mar 18, 2014

As Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, I have painfully watched the cycle that has gone on over here for the past several years.

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