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On the recordOctober 2, 2013
I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, we've heard in the last hour or two people worried about lab rats at NIH, the zoos closing down. They're worried about cancer patients at NIH. Just a few. But if we want to provide health care to all children so that no family has to worry about it, we don't hear anything but a defunding proposition from the other side. You want kids to go to the zoo, but if we want to provide them health care, you guys are MIA. Now you've been infighting. You've been called lemmings. You've been called wacko birds by your own party. So it seems to me that there is one zoo open in the Nation's Capital--and that's the House Republican Conference.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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