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Adam Kinzinger: “Well, thank you. And as we do wrap up our time, I just want to say thank you to those paying attention today and to my…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
Well, thank you. And as we do wrap up our time, I just want to say thank you to those paying attention today and to my fellow Members here. This is an important issue. This is the very beginning of a long discussion that we need to have because this is too important to get wrong. This is too important to rush, because America's the greatest country in the world and this is something we ought not ever forget. And in the process of doing that, we ought to remember that we're an America that many of us come from immigrants and an America that, frankly, is proud of where we've come from. So with that, I want to thank the fellow Members of Congress here with me to talk about this. And this is the very beginning of, I'm sure, a long discussion about where we go from here.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois
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Jul 16, 2013

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