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Pete Hoekstra: “What Joshua had to say was awesome. I mean, here we have a 10-year-old kid who is looking up at three rows of chairs and…”

On the recordApril 24, 2002
What Joshua had to say was awesome. I mean, here we have a 10-year-old kid who is looking up at three rows of chairs and a row of Congress people up at the top, and very eloquently goes through his testimony and very eloquently answers the questions. His mom had passed away, so his grandfather was there with him at the hearing, talking about his mom's dream and his mom's vision that he attend a particular school, and that this school was providing him with all of the necessary training and skills to be successful in life. And I think it was one of her last requests to his grandfather to say, make sure that Joshua and, was it his brother or sister?
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing a young boy's testimony about his late mother's wishes during a congressional hearing.

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