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On the recordJune 22, 2010
I totally agree with the gentleman. Here you have tax cuts for businesses, you have $30 billion for community banks to loan out up to $300 billion, you have tax cuts for individuals, you have the extension of unemployment benefits and health care through COBRA, you have infrastructure projects, billions of dollars, you have billions of dollars for Pell Grants so people can go to school. We've taken the banks out of the student loan business so people get a better deal when they take out a loan to go to school. And as you said, we're taking $1 billion a day that's leaving this country to go to oil- producing countries and driving that back into the United States, the kind of technology that you have, the kind of nuclear technology and production that Mr. Altmire has in western Pennsylvania, fuel cells in Mr. Boccieri's district, manufacturing and engineering in my district, and all of the above in Mr. Murphy's district.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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