I have letters from the AFL-CIO, the university community, and the major centers of innovation and research in this country that directly contradict his assertion that they are opposed to the passage of this bill.
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I have no further requests for time, and I'm prepared, if you're prepared to close, to yield back the balance of my time, and I will yield back the balance of my time.
I think this is a very historic piece of bipartisan legislation. Just as Jackson-Vanik became a tool to deal with one aspect of a horrible set of policies by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we now, using the Magnitsky legislation…
I would also yield 5 minutes of my time to the gentleman from Ohio and ask unanimous consent that he be allowed to control those 5 minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from California? There…
I don't see the one individual who asked to join me in speaking on this, so I yield back the balance of my time.
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