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Blake Farenthold: At this point, I would like to wrap it up and close. Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from Virginia and the gentleman from…

On the recordJanuary 14, 2014
At this point, I would like to wrap it up and close. Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from Virginia and the gentleman from Maryland pointed out, this is a commonsense, good government bill that has strong national security implications and I am going to urge all my colleagues to support it. Again, even though it was included in the omnibus that is coming through that is 1 year, this creates permanent law where we continue to do this necessary and appropriate oversight at a fraction of the percent of the cost of the budget, absolutely a phenomenal bill that we all need to get behind and support. I reserve the balance of my time.
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Blake Farenthold
Texas
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Jan 14, 2014

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