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Summer Lee: “That means that we have at least $1 billion still sitting? Is that right?”

On the recordMarch 30, 2009
That means that we have at least $1 billion still sitting? Is that right?
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Jackson Lee questions the status of the fund for 9/11 victims.

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