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On the recordAugust 2, 2013
Here we are Friday afternoon. We have a lot of people around the country who are going home for the weekend, but expecting to go back to their workplace on Monday. Congress is not coming back until September. Did we get everything done? No, we did not. We did manage to vote against ObamaCare 40 times, and basically that means we have voted against the people of this country and their right to health insurance 40 times. We did not cancel the sequester, which is hurting people. I delivered meals last week to a 101-year-old man who has had his meals cut because of sequester. We didn't pass any jobs bill, not one, not a single jobs bill. All we've managed to do in this body is to try to take health care away from American citizens. I urge Congress to stay here. I urge the Speaker to call us back and make us do the job the American public sent us here to do. ____________________
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Carol Shea-Porter
New Hampshire
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Aug 2, 2013

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