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Summer Lee: “I hope my Republican colleagues will stop holding Government funding hostage to their inhumane and ineffective border…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2023
I hope my Republican colleagues will stop holding Government funding hostage to their inhumane and ineffective border proposals and instead come to the negotiating table to develop a bipartisan full-year appropriations agreement.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Calls for bipartisan cooperation on government funding instead of partisan border proposals.

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