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Michael Burgess: I would just observe, at the end of calendar year 2007, the commentator George Will observed the United States Congress…

On the recordApril 30, 2015
I would just observe, at the end of calendar year 2007, the commentator George Will observed the United States Congress had two jobs: deliver the mail and defend the border. It had done neither. But what it had done was ban the incandescent bulb, perhaps the greatest invention ever invented by an American inventor. This is a commonsense amendment. It deserves passage. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas
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Apr 30, 2015

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