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Kevin Brady: “Mr. Speaker, tell me the moral clarity of going home each week and trumpeting that press release for the firefighter…”

On the recordNovember 18, 2004
Mr. Speaker, tell me the moral clarity of going home each week and trumpeting that press release for the firefighter fund or the road project or for that water project, and then stand up here tonight and tell us we are not going to pay the bill for it. So the seniors who need their Social Security checks, the heck with them. The military retirees who are counting on their retirement, the heck with them. I got my press acclaim, I got my public support, but you, you on the other side of the aisle, you take responsibility for making sure those checks get there. Tell me the moral obligation of that.
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Kevin Brady
Republican · Texas
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Addressing fiscal responsibility and the impact on Social Security and military retirement during a speech.

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