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On the recordJune 21, 2012
I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. But if we ``may be'' getting there, we're getting there because we've constantly done motions like this to get us to the issue. We are talking about some 2-plus million jobs. That's why the Chamber of Commerce is involved. That's why counties, States, and local municipalities are involved, saying, Come to an agreement. Very frankly, the bill that we passed here had some things that didn't relate to transportation. What the gentleman has mentioned are items that dealt with transportation. Your bill, as you well know, had items in it which were clearly not acceptable to the President of the United States because they were unrelated to transportation. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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