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John Conyers: what I am trying to do is draw the parameters of where we are today. Today, we are not dealing with the people on the…

On the recordSeptember 14, 2005
what I am trying to do is draw the parameters of where we are today. Today, we are not dealing with the people on the ground that can be of the most help. We have business people, construction people, who actually could be helping, and they cannot get in the door because they do not have the answers to the gentlewoman's questions of where do they go. I have been trying to call the Mayor of New Orleans, and he does not have a phone. Only cell phones, and everybody in America is probably calling him on those one or two phones. I commend the leader of this Special Order.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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