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On the recordDecember 9, 2013
Mr. Speaker, I have no additional speakers and am prepared to close. Let me just simply say, I commend the gentleman from North Carolina for putting forth this measure in the House and helping to shepherd it hopefully into swift passage and then into law. I also commend the Davenport family for their courage, their strength, and their perseverance, and I wish them Godspeed as it relates to the recovery of their child moving forward. I yield back the balance of my time.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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