“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
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On the recordFebruary 14, 2012
I want to see--and I can understand, I understand the whole argument you never know when they have to travel to one part.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Cuellar questions the necessity of overtime for Border Patrol agents in Washington, D.C.

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