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On the recordJanuary 20, 2010
I now yield 2 minutes to the Chair of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, a leader on so many issues who has been involved with Haiti since I have known her, and that has been since the 1970s, who has led the charge for debt relief, Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
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Barbara Lee
Democratic · California

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