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Rob Woodall: I thank the chairwoman, and I thank the chairman of the committee, Mr. Kline. I rise in reluctant opposition to this…

On the recordApril 27, 2012
I thank the chairwoman, and I thank the chairman of the committee, Mr. Kline. I rise in reluctant opposition to this bill, but in strong support of the committee and the work that they're doing. We got caught up in politics again today. It makes me so angry. I'm so angry I could spit. I'm trying to bring my blood pressure down over here as a freshman, remember, because I came here for results. I am the keynote speaker tonight for the Georgia College Republicans' statewide convention, and I'm going to go down there and proudly tell them that I voted ``no'' on this bill today that is pandering to their interests, not because I don't like young people in education, but because I love young people in education. Every time we come to this floor and talk about how proud we are that we're paying for a piece of legislation, every oil industry tax you want to raise and every millionaire tax you rant to raise, those could be paying down the deficit that we're borrowing from these young people that you purport to support here today. With every new piece of ObamaCare that we want to abolish and that should be abolished, we could put that money towards reducing the over $1 trillion a year we're borrowing and asking our young people to pay back. But let me tell you, as a conservative Republican, I am not embarrassed of what we do to serve our young people. Congratulations on our subsidies for our young people.…
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Rob Woodall
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Apr 27, 2012

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