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Kendrick Meek: “I personally, I am representing the 17th Congressional District of Florida, you know Dade and Broward County. But, you…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2006
I personally, I am representing the 17th Congressional District of Florida, you know Dade and Broward County. But, you know, I do not want to be them, Mr. Delahunt. I do not want to come to this floor and start talking about what they are saying, so we are going to rebut what they are saying. I do not want to be them. I want to make sure that we are who we are. We are being straight with the American people. If it is the Bush- McCain or it is the Kennedy-Martinez bill II, Arlen Specter bill II, so that if someone sees us here on the floor and they heard, well, they call it the Bush-McCain bill, they say, well, they left the Democrats out, and then we have just done what they have done. I know how that can be contagious sometimes because it happens so much here on this floor.
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