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Pete Stark: The fact that we don't want to talk about killing children that we send to die in a war and spend $200 billion, we're…

On the recordOctober 18, 2007
The fact that we don't want to talk about killing children that we send to die in a war and spend $200 billion, we're going to shuffle on, calling things ``socialism,'' Madam Speaker. And we're going to talk about if we only had a chance to do this a little better to make sure that illegal aliens were treated a little less fairly than they are now, we might vote for it. It's too bad. It's too bad they're voting to harm children for a bunch of really petty grievances that they have in the minority. I hope they will change their minds and vote to override the veto.
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Pete Stark
California

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Addressing the impact of war spending and immigration policy on children during a debate.

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