In regards to what was just stated by the gentleman, we care about all these children. And it would be helpful if $5.7 billion was not slashed from the Pell Grants when these kids get to college. It is my honor to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Loebsack).
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I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.
It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.
And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.
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