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Janice Hahn: “I am ready to close, too. The hour is late. For those of you watching C-SPAN, it's nearing the final hour of the day.…”

On the recordJune 27, 2012
I am ready to close, too. The hour is late. For those of you watching C-SPAN, it's nearing the final hour of the day. It's past 11 p.m. But I really did feel like one of the reasons I did come to Congress was to raise the level of importance of our ports, of goods movement, of cargo, what it means to this economy, what it means to jobs, and I just wanted to give it one last shot that we might instruct the conferees to include what I think is the better language in the final transportation bill. I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 2310
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Janice Hahn
California
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govinfo.gov
Jun 27, 2012

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