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Virginia Foxx: “I would like to point out to my colleague across the aisle that if we have a constitutional right for taxpayer funding…”

On the recordOctober 13, 2011
I would like to point out to my colleague across the aisle that if we have a constitutional right for taxpayer funding of abortions, then we should have a right to taxpayer funding of guns. The Second Amendment allows us to keep and bear arms. I now would like to yield 3 minutes to our distinguished colleague from Louisiana, Dr. Cassidy.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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Oct 13, 2011

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