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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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