12/11/2013
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"The death toll from that terrible day continues to grow."
"We are counting on you to make this program permanent, to reauthorize it. That is the least that we can do as a grateful Nation."
"They shouldn't have to worry about the program running out of funding, and they should not have to come back to Congress every 5 years to beg for program reauthorization."
"That kind of uncertainty is unfair and unsustainable."