As I was saying, it is appropriate that we are having this conversation, in many respects, behind a mask, because there is nobody on this floor today who can argue with a straight face that many of the provisions in this bill that we are debating right now are related to coronavirus or have any sense of congressional urgency.
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There are only about 578 people that will be affected by this. You know, the Guard is over 100,000.
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