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Eleanor Holmes Norton: Oh, you would be the very first one given what you have done on this floor, and I am glad you mentioned some parts of…

On the recordMay 12, 2015
Oh, you would be the very first one given what you have done on this floor, and I am glad you mentioned some parts of the bill and its cost. Yes. Guess what? It costs money; it costs something to do transportation and infrastructure; but the administration has had many Members' support of bringing back untaxed funds abroad that want to come back and of using it for something that everybody is for. I understand that our ranking member, Mr. DeFazio, has written Mr. Ryan of Ways and Means to ask for a joint hearing of our committee with the Ways and Means Committee so that we can work together, and there are rumors, because that is all we hear about of this bill these days, that there may be one in June. You will notice that that is after May 31.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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May 12, 2015

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