House Proceeding 05-07-09 on May 7th, 2009 :: 0:14:55 to 0:16:25
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Steny H. Hoyer: the area of transferring detainees from the guantanam\@ bay facility, and i yield. mr. hoyer: the -- i thank the gentleman for yielding. the markup was just concluded. i have not reviewed the tiahrt amendment nor have i had discussions with the chairman

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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: regarding the rule and what amendments would be asked for or what amendments would be made in order. very frankly, i will tell my friend, it's not the majority needs your help in passing this bill. our troops need your help in passing this bill. our country needs your help. and i appreciate your comments that you supporthe president

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Steny H. Hoyer: in his efforts in afghanistan and pakistan. we are confronted with extraordinarily difficult situation, destabilizing situation, dangerous situation, and this supplemental obviously is directed at making sure that our troops have the resources they need to pure the

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Steny H. Hoyer: objectives that we and the president have given to them. and we look forward to having that bill passed with bipartisan support. . cantor: i thank the gentman. mr. speaker, i would just say to reiterate my point, my sense is and i'm not the one who counts votes on his side of the aisle, but as a former whip i

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Steny H. Hoyer: know he knows that there is some difficulty and it is my hunch that without the support of republicans that the american people wouldn't see