It's not only that they were not voting for the America COMPETES Act, which by any measure will create literally millions, potentially, of new jobs and definitely tens of thousands of jobs. They added an unrelated, irrelevant pornography amendment to that legislation to try to catch Members on our side of the aisle in a vote for or against pornography.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “It's not only that they were not voting for the America COMPETES Act, which by any measure will create literally…”
On the recordJune 15, 2010
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Wasserman Schultz criticizes the addition of a pornography amendment to the America COMPETES Act.
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