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On the recordJune 22, 2011
I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just wanted my dear friend--and I recognize he has only been here 5 months--to realize that this is not a technical CutGo violation. This is a $1.1 billion violation. That's real money that we're going to have to get from somewhere else, and we're waiving CutGo for the first time in the 112th Congress. I am appealing to Republicans and Democrats, Mr. Speaker, to join with us against this outrageous and costly and blatant violation of the House rules that they wrote.
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Democratic · Michigan
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