House Proceeding 03-24-09 on Mar 24th, 2009 :: 4:50:50 to 4:51:35
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Speech By: Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: congress -- the one spouse, the father or mother is serving in congress and taking away from the normal -- we aren't living with our family during the week, we're in washington and go home on weekends. in order to bond with your new freshman class, we took a retreat and that was business travel.

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Sam Farr: we went to williamsburg. we did that as democrats and the republicans the following week did the same thing. and so, why do we do it? we didn't think of ourselves going on a vacation or going on a boondoggle, but about how to do our professional lives better

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Sam Farr: and incorporate our families so we can incorporate them in our business. and i think that that's al important in what is happening in this economic crisis. it has made that kind of

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Shelley Berkley: experience for businesses and government that you shouldn't be doing that -- you should be feeling guilty. i feel guilty about the people being unemployed because they aren't going out to a

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Speech By: Shelley Berkley