12/13/2011
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"I'm really honored to be part of this hearing. I'm really grateful. This is a rare privilege for a senator to appear at a House hearing."
"For the first time since I have been here as a Member of Congress, 5 years now, are we even talking about, in a meaningful way, what we are going to do in approximately 15 years from now when the dram..."
"I want to commend him."
"I also want to stress for all of us on both sides of the aisle to seriously and definitively deal with this issue in this Congress."