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John Fleming: “Reclaiming my time. And then one other deal that just slipped in on the House side is the North Dakota deal. There are…”

On the recordMarch 18, 2010
Reclaiming my time. And then one other deal that just slipped in on the House side is the North Dakota deal. There are carve- outs there. So the sweet deals have not stopped even though the Senate bill is complete. I understand that there have been in fact ambassadorships, like an ambassadorship to NATO has been offered for a ``yes'' vote. We have Members of Congress being carted around in Air Force One and certainly asked out to dinner and all sorts of things like that. Look, this is one-sixth of the economy. This is the future of our Nation for a century. Are we so lack of character that we are willing to sell our souls for just about nothing? I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana
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Mar 18, 2010

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