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Summer Lee: “Well, let me just add, as you keep going down, gentlemen, we will need your advocacy for people to understand that we…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
Well, let me just add, as you keep going down, gentlemen, we will need your advocacy for people to understand that we are not sacrificing deficit reduction, which is one of the issues that the FCC was instructed to use spectrum for, that that priority certainly has to take many, many back steps to the securing of this Nation.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Jackson Lee emphasizes the need for prioritizing national security over deficit reduction.

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