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Pete Sessions: “Mr. Speaker, today's rule allows for a full and fair consideration of all the controversial defense authorization…”

On the recordMay 18, 2000
Mr. Speaker, today's rule allows for a full and fair consideration of all the controversial defense authorization issues. We are getting our military families off food stamps and we are going to provide a 3.7 percent pay increase. We are helping them by creating an Armed Services Thrift Savings Plan. We are doing those things that will improve military housing. We are doing things, I believe, that rearm our military to make sure that the young men and young women who represent America have not only the best fighting equipment, but also the circumstances and the will of a grateful Nation.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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Discussing the fiscal year 2001 Department of Defense authorization bill.

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