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On the recordJanuary 27, 2009
These men and women have paid in blood and injury for our safety and our security in this great country, and we cannot neglect them.
Said by
Roland Burris
Democratic · Illinois

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Burris stresses the obligation to care for veterans who have sacrificed for the country.

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