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On the recordJune 14, 2011
I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to point out to my friend from California of a number of the previous speakers who keep speaking about the DeLauro amendment. The DeLauro amendment does not do anything. We accept the DeLauro amendment, but I'm not sure that the folks over there who are speaking for the DeLauro amendment have read the DeLauro amendment because, if they had, they would know that it does nothing to restore the funding. I will be glad to yield to my friend from California because I understand your speech was right, but that's not what the amendment did. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida controls the time.
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Georgia
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