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On the recordApril 9, 2003
Mr. Speaker, I am clear that my constituents would say to me, keep the ``sense,'' meaning S-E-N-S-E, and give me a prescription drug benefit for senior citizens. Keep the ``sense'' and fund No Child Left Behind. Keep the ``sense'' and improve our economy. Keep the ``sense'' and maybe all the money that we are talking about that is collected by the IRS could, in fact, pay for the war in Iraq, pay for the fact that there are seniors out there who need a prescription drug benefit, pay for the fact that their children, the best investment we can make in this country that will pay for generations and generations and generations, we ought to do that.
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Addressing the need for Congress to take action on health care and education funding.

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