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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Speaking of the winds of change, you should have seen, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Meek, the wind behind our flight that our two…

On the recordSeptember 12, 2006
Speaking of the winds of change, you should have seen, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Meek, the wind behind our flight that our two colleagues that represent the State of New Hampshire had when they immediately left the room during the immigration hearings that we held. The Judiciary Committee had those immigration hearings across the country. I attended one of them in New Hampshire, and it was one of those road shows where, again, the Republicans tried to represent a whole lot of rhetoric about what their record really is on border security and homeland security and there is no reality to back it up. So we brought reality, Mr. Delahunt and Mr. Meehan and I, as members of the Judiciary Committee, went to that hearing, and we brought the record of our two colleagues from the State of New Hampshire and showed how ten different times while they were there in the room professing to their constituents that they were moderates on immigration reform and that they supported balance, we confronted their constituents with the reality of their record in a nice big lifesize form. And it was really interesting that the flight that they took out of the room following our putting that record up on the table and our asking, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Delahunt, and myself asking our good colleagues to say why they were saying one thing in the room at home when the reality of their record in Washington was completely different.…
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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