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On the recordSeptember 19, 2013
I yield myself 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have, from time to time, wondered about where the business community is on this issue, so I would like to insert for the Record a letter from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which notes, as ``the world's largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses . . . '' it favors the passage of H.J. Res. 59, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution for 2014, to ensure the uninterrupted funding of the Federal Government into the next fiscal year and to defund ObamaCare. I reserve the balance of my time. Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., September 18, 2013. To The Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business federation representing the interests of more than three million businesses and organizations of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations, and dedicated to promoting, protecting and defending America's free enterprise system, urges the House of Representatives to pass H.J. Res. 59, the ``Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014,'' to ensure the uninterrupted funding of the federal government into the next fiscal year at spending levels consistent with P.L. 112-25, the Budget Control Act of 2011. The U.S.…
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Tom Cole
Republican · Oklahoma
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Sep 19, 2013

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