House Proceeding on Sep 25th, 2009 :: 0:41:15 to 0:42:05
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Jerrold Nadler: borders security, threat of terrorism, funding for our troops, those should be the priorities that we have and the notion of standing here, madam speaker, having subverted the opportunity for the american people, democrats and republicans alike to be heard in this appropriations so we can get everything done by

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Speech By: Jerrold Nadler

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Jerrold Nadler: september 30 when we failed to meet that is just plain wrong. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from massachusett mr. mcgovern: i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: the gentleman from california says the american people get it. they know what terrible things

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Jerrold Nadler: acorn has done. that's not the point. we do not punish people by referendum or by unpopularity. congress should not punish people. that's why the constitution says we cannot pass bail of attainder. we have courts, we have two processes to punish people or organizations for wrong things. mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? mr. nadler: not at the moment. once congress passes a bill of

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Jerrold Nadler: attainder, we sacrifice our liberties and we sacrifice our due process protections and