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On the recordNovember 18, 2010
It's just inexplicable -- inexplicable. And if it is the result of partisan politics -- politics, these children are being used as partisan pawns for more controversial immigration measures, we suspect, and that's simply wrong.
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Jeff Fortenberry
Republican · Nebraska

Editor's note · Context

Fortenberry criticizes the political maneuvering that has delayed the vote on the Help Haiti Act, suggesting it exploits the situation of the orphans.

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