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Providing for Consideration of H.R. 5749, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: June 12, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action


PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 5749, EMERGENCY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT OF 2008 -- (House of Representatives - June 12, 2008)

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Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, when you are born into poverty, you enjoy such delicacies as mayonnaise sandwiches without mayonnaise. When you're born into poverty, phrases like ``but for the grace of God, there go I'' have true meaning because you understand you have been there.

This bill will not fuel rockets to Mars. It will, however, put fuel in gas tanks right here on Earth. It will not put a man on the Moon, but it will put food on the table of somebody's home. But for the grace of God, there go I.

I will support the bill.

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