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On the recordJune 29, 2012
Thank you, Congressman Doyle. There are a few things you said, like most Democrats, stretching the truth a little bit. You know, you said that there are only 21 outs in the game. Well, we being very generous and open-hearted Republicans, we play a game where you got about 31 outs because we were so friendly with the way we didn't catch the ball. For my Republican colleagues, there is good news and bad news. The good news is we got nine times as many hits this year. We got 500 percent more runs this year. So in some ways, we did a lot better. But the bad news is that the Democrats doubled the number of runs. And as my 6-year-old son Jack told me on the way home after the game--he's a T-ball expert--he said, Those guys didn't let up on you.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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