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Funds cost 7 billion every month, and thats just for the army. Mr. President , we have an opportunity to correct this or we have an opportunity to waste another 20 by a yearlong c. R. I am urging the American Public to make it known to those of us at veterans day programs this weekend and next week. Im urging my colleagues to stress this when they talk to the public. There are there are appropriation bills that are not yet worked out but for heavens sake, lets at least do the bill that pays the troops that sends a signal to the rest of the world in these trying times that we are at least going to fund our Defense Department and our future veterans who are on active duty and who have taken the oath today that we will do them in a modern and timely fashion. Were five weeks late. Lets dont make it another five weeks after this and another five months after that. Pass a full ....
And said my fellow senators, i have thought about this, i have contemplated it, maybe i have even prayed about it, and i believe the day has arrived to end slavery in the United States. And i will be attaching an amendment to every bill to end that horrific practice. Ill bet they were a very lonely United States senator at that point in our history. But im also guessing that that senator and tenacious other senators along the way exercised their rights as a minority and as an individual United States senator to continue to force that issue. What a courageous, remarkable thing to do. So lets think about where were headed here. We now have a precedent, and as bob byrd points out in his writings, precedents voted on by United States senators have significant binding effect ....
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