Reclaiming my time, their parents, their cousins, what is the gentleman from Florida saying; that their aunt, and let us say they are over in Bosnia, that their mother or father, or their uncle or aunt who is back in the United States is not going to get cut off? Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] to respond to that question. Mr. Chairman, the fact of the matter is it is absolutely a shame the gentleman has asked me that question when he was the author of last year's bill and yet he knows full well what we are talking about here, and that bill, Mr. Chairman----
Patrick Kennedy: “Reclaiming my time, their parents, their cousins, what is the gentleman from Florida saying; that their aunt, and let us…”
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Addressing a question about the implications of a bill related to family members overseas.
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