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Steny Hoyer: “The important issue is going forward. We agree with that. We can argue about what happened in the past, we certainly…”

On the recordJune 5, 2007
The important issue is going forward. We agree with that. We can argue about what happened in the past, we certainly have our perspective. Your panel was named last month, not at the beginning of the session, not in January or February or March or April, but last month. So we need to move forward on this, and we are going to. We are going to support this resolution. I welcome your support of the suspension resolution, which will ensure that in these kinds of cases, that we go forward in every instance as we are going forward today.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Discussing the importance of moving forward with a resolution during a House floor debate.

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