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Alcee Hastings: I don't believe he said that. I want to continue along those lines. Evidently the previous speaker doesn't know what…

On the recordJune 22, 2006
I don't believe he said that. I want to continue along those lines. Evidently the previous speaker doesn't know what Governor Jeb Bush just did, but that is another story. I want to keep the Constitution before us. What it says in that same article, which, incidentally, was the first article, the article creating the President was the second article, in the first article, ``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time,'' by the Congress. I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to my good friend from Tennessee (Mr. Cooper). (Mr. COOPER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)
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