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On the recordOctober 1, 2013
We live in the greatest country on the face of the Earth. We enjoy freedoms that they enjoy no place else like in America, but freedom is not free. The freedoms we enjoy were bought with a price, and that was the price of the men and women who sacrificed. I am very, very saddened tonight that our colleagues would use and would hide behind the garment of sacrifice of those veterans and put forth a CR that does not fund, as the Senate CR does, the discretionary budget fully, the mandatory budget fully. But theirs, this CR, will not. I urge the defeat of it, and let's not allow them to hide behind the sacrifice of our veterans. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
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Sanford Bishop
Democratic · Georgia

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