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Chaka Fattah: “Let me first thank the House for setting aside this time to appropriately reflect on and to celebrate the life of…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
Let me first thank the House for setting aside this time to appropriately reflect on and to celebrate the life of service of William H. Gray--Bill Gray, as we know him--who represented my hometown of Philadelphia so very well in this Congress. But as we're going to have a number of speakers, I'll have ample opportunity to talk. So I want to move to a process in which we can acknowledge some others who want to say a few words. General Leave
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Chaka Fattah
Pennsylvania
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Jul 8, 2013

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