| Fatherhood |
June 18, 2013 |
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Vicky Hartzler, R-MO
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"Mr. Speaker, Father’s Day was this past Sunday, and I am very thankful that I had an opportunity to spend some time with my father, with my sister and her family. Everybody was there. I had an opportunity to thank him for the role that he has meant and continues to mean in our lives, and to thank him for that. It was also an opportunity for my daughter and I to do something special for my husband."
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| End Hunger Now |
June 18, 2013 |
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Jim McGovern, D-MA
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"I thank my colleague from Connecticut for her eloquent remarks. I think tomorrow, hopefully, we can do something about it. I will have an amendment, I hope, if the Rules Committee makes it in order, to restore the SNAP cuts, to reverse the $22.5 billion worth of cuts. Members on both sides of the aisle will have an opportunity to vote up or down on it. I think how we vote on that is a statement of our values and whether we think that government has a role and, indeed, whether our community has a role to be there for the least among us."
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| Border Security, Economic Opportunity, And Immigration Modernization Act—Continued |
June 18, 2013 |
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Mark Udall, D-CO
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"I say and implore my colleagues, let’s not stand in the way of what Americans want and what our economy needs. Our Nation will be stronger when our borders are secure, when employers are held accountable for the workers they have hired, when jobs are filled with qualified and documented workers who contribute to the economy and undocumented workers who are currently here are held accountable and given an opportunity to earn their legal status and then citizenship."
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| Honoring Juneteenth, Vallejo, California |
June 17, 2013 |
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Mike Thompson, D-CA
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"On Saturday, June 15, 2013, the Solano County African Family Celebration Committee marks the City of Vallejo’s 25th anniversary of the Juneteenth Celebration. Juneteenth is the national observance of African American freedom from slavery in June of 1865. Juneteenth is also a time to also celebrate the positive contributions of African Americans nationally and locally, and to promote a cultural connection of the observance as an opportunity to build strong communities through access to health services and education resources."
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