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On the recordNovember 15, 2023
Thank you very much, and thank you for your service and to everybody that served. Next week is Thanksgiving. We are all going to go home here in a little bit and enjoy our families. God willing, we make it home safe. I mean that for everybody--Coach, everybody. There are a lot of people who won't be with their families next week because they are in some place doing things that are very difficult, risking their lives. This is where I am here tonight. How do you right wrongs? You don't create another wrong. I want to right the wrong of having abortion paid for by public taxpayer dollars from the defense coffers that I think not only violates the Hyde amendments, it is just bad policy. Count me in, Coach. I am with you on that, Mike. I am with you on that. You say it is illegal. I tend to agree with you. Go to court. One way you right a wrong in America if you think the law is broken, you actually bring a lawsuit. I think we found a way--talking to Jay Sekulow--to bring a lawsuit challenging the Defense policy of President Biden using taxpayer dollars to pay for transportation costs from DOD funds to perform abortions. I think that is in violation of the Hyde amendment. The good news is I believe the Speaker of the House has standing to bring the lawsuit. Generally speaking, in America, when you get in a legal dispute, you go to court. The DOD general counsel has a memo that it doesn't violate the Hyde amendment. I think they are wrong, but we are not a court of law here.…
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Nov 15, 2023

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