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Kendrick Meek: And Asian. They are suffering, and we have to give them voice. We have to give them voice, sure, when we start outing…

On the recordNovember 4, 2005
And Asian. They are suffering, and we have to give them voice. We have to give them voice, sure, when we start outing CIA agents, when we start seeing the majority side looking the other way. Even though they know what is going, they are not going to look because their friends are there and they do not want to do that. In the Clinton administration, Democrats called the administration officials out on things that they were doing that was wrong. {time} 1230 That is our responsibility in the Constitution of these United States. So when the gentleman from Ohio speaks of not putting party over country, I think that if we were to look at what we do now and what we have done in the past, we have always put country over party. The everyday Republican does not want his government operated by what the national GOP leadership says that it should be, that we need to do that and do this, but they are messing with the lives of everyday Americans. They do not endorse that. So the problem here in this House is that we are sharing that information with the American people. We are not over at the Democratic National Committee sitting there sharing it with Democrats only.…
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