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Paul Tonko: Let me do this quickly, Representative Garamendi. We're the greatest nation in the world. I believe our greatest days…

On the recordJuly 17, 2012
Let me do this quickly, Representative Garamendi. We're the greatest nation in the world. I believe our greatest days lie ahead of us. Let us take our golden moments in history when we were faced with heavy challenges, where we responded accordingly with the belief in the worker, belief in the American way, the pioneer spirit, and did it in an order of investment. Let those solutions-oriented moments speak to us today. We need the soundest of solutions, we need the respect for the American worker, and our greatest days lie ahead. It's a spirit of optimism that we should embrace, a history that ought to challenge, feed us, and inspire us. With that, I thank you for yielding this evening.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York
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Jul 17, 2012

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