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On the recordJuly 11, 2019
I just want to add my support to this. We have added these prohibitions on three other bills that have come through here, State, and Foreign Operations; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Financial Services and General Government. It is in the Constitution. Moneys are not supposed to be spent there, and this is wrong. The country will go on with them staying at Hiltons or, as Mr. Lieu said, Ritz Carltons, or Holiday Inns, or even Red Roof Inns. I just say that this is the right thing to do, and I add my name as a supporter.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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