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On the recordSeptember 22, 2021
A small law enforcement agency being able to order massive amounts of military equipment directly from the battlefields of this country and to do it without consent of the governed is wrong, and that is what this amendment will get at. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia

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