It is our job to provide the funding necessary to protect America, and your job is to carry it out.
John Garamendi: “It is our job to provide the funding necessary to protect America, and your job is to carry it out.”
On the recordJuly 6, 2016
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Garamendi emphasizes the responsibility of Congress to fund national security.
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