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On the recordOctober 11, 2011
You can't have it both ways. You can't kill the program that the Administration wants in order to expedite the handling of it, and then complain that it is not being handled fast enough.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes Republicans for undermining funding while expecting faster processing.

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