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On the recordFebruary 13, 1995
Let me say, reclaiming my time, we are talking not just about public buildings. We are talking about some facilities that might be private. In committee, the gentleman from Florida said, ``Well, wait a minute, you do not want to give public funds to private facilities to buy equipment with.'' We said, ``That is right.'' The gentlewoman accommodated that. It might be appropriate, however, to lend certain facilities to certain locations for certain time. So this does not obviate the need to point it out. When you begin to look at the examples, if there is an example anywhere of violence in this country which is fairly widespread sadly, it is violence aimed at these clinics, and therefore, it is certainly, if they are going to single things out, something that ought to be singled out.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing the need to address violence aimed at clinics during a committee meeting.

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