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Joel Hefley: “I just lost my $5 here. I don't want to take any more time because I know this is going to, we need to go ahead and get…”

On the recordApril 27, 2006
I just lost my $5 here. I don't want to take any more time because I know this is going to, we need to go ahead and get on with this thing. But I think we do have a serious opportunity here to do some really good things. And there are some really good things in this bill. I just don't think it goes far enough if we are really to have the reform kind of package that many of us would like to see.
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Joel Hefley
Republican · Colorado

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