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On the recordApril 1, 2011
I yield the gentlewoman an additional 30 seconds. Ms. DeLAURO. You're playing fast and loose with the lives of the American people, their kids, their families and with American businesses. No matter what those damaging effects are, because of ideological reasons and political base, and electoral votes, you are willing to put the United States and its people, above all, working families, middle class families and their children and our economy, at risk. Please read the Constitution. Understand how this democracy works, and take this bill and do away with it. {time} 1320
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina
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Apr 1, 2011

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