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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “First, I want to thank my friend for keeping jobs before us. That's the bottom line. That's really what we've been…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2013
First, I want to thank my friend for keeping jobs before us. That's the bottom line. That's really what we've been talking about even as we talk about the Ryan budget. I simply wanted to come forward because, when I heard you on the floor, it seemed to me almost everything you were saying fed into the news today from the Ryan budget. I ask people to try to follow the explanation of what that budget does when you hear that he can close the budget in 10 years rather than 25 years, understand that that is impossible if you want to grow this economy. I thank you, once again, my good friend from California, for making all the important points this evening.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Mar 12, 2013

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