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Kendrick Meek: “I just want to say that I am proud of the Members that voted in the affirmative for this bill. The emergency…”

On the recordMarch 23, 2007
I just want to say that I am proud of the Members that voted in the affirmative for this bill. The emergency supplemental funding bill has started a new era as it relates to how Americans think about the war in Iraq, how our troops are being treated in Iraq and Afghanistan and even here back at home on health care services. And also it gave voice to those individuals that went to the voting booth looking for representation, looking for a new direction, looking for the Congress to carry out the kind of oversight that we should carry out as Members of Congress on behalf of any action that will involve the American taxpayer and in many cases involve foreign nations loaning money to the United States of America. We have to pay all of that back. We have to be accountable to the U.S. taxpayer. And we have to make sure that we provide the oversight for the American people.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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Discussing the implications of a recent vote on the emergency supplemental funding bill.

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