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On the recordFebruary 12, 2008
I have heard some holier than thou types on television say that Congress has much more important things to deal with, and, you know, I'll say this. We all work on all these other important issues all the time. But a lot of them aren't as glamorous or high profile as this, and so we don't have some of the crowds that we have. But we're working on the other major issues, too.
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John J. Duncan
Tennessee

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Representative Duncan defends Congress's focus on high-profile issues like the steroid hearings, asserting that they also work on other important matters.

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