“anti-Semitic incidents in the country are up 70%.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“I've got religious leaders constantly calling me and saying, 'I'm scared. My parishioners are scared.'”

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On the recordApril 15, 2010
Does it help that the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 designates the Great Lakes as the fourth seacoast?
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James Oberstar
Democratic · Minnesota
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I would like to inquire of the time remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota has 18 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 20 minutes remaining.

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I now yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cuellar).

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