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On the recordJune 20, 2018
Mr. Speaker, I think about my wife, Andrea, and I when we go to take a couple days away from the kids and we leave our 4- year-old with his grandparents, how heartbreaking it is to even leave that kid when you are leaving him with grandparents. I think about my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy as immigrants. I think about the 13 years of Catholic school that I attended. I think about the conversations in Washington, D.C., about family values. And then I think about how, in the most powerful country in the world, our governmental policy is to strip kids--babies, toddlers, infants--from their parents. The most powerful country in the world has resorted to this nonsense. This is a joke. It is by choice, Mr. Speaker. This is a choice that the most powerful men in the most powerful country are choosing to take poor kids away from their parents. It is time for this most powerful President to act immediately and stop the American carnage. ____________________
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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