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May 20, 2013
Floor Statements
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1073, the Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation and Safety of Maritime Navigation Act. This bipartisan legislation, which was repor...
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May 16, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Patients' Rights Repeal Act.Today, if people want to talk about repealing health care reform, it's important that they talk ...
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May 14, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 180, the National Blue Alert Act. H.R. 180 will establish a coordinator within the Department of Justice to facilitate the issuance of Blu...
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April 24, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and remember the Honorable James Edward Sheffield--husband, father, trailblazer, airman, judge, lawyer, law professor, community leader, human...
April 24, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about an issue that is important to our society, and that is access to higher education. Our Nation's economic competitiveness depends on our a...
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April 17, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and career of a local community leader, businessman, and humanitarian from Newport News, Virginia--Walter Segaloff....
April 11, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate a legacy of community service in the Commonwealth of Virginia and throughout the nation. This year, the Old Dominion Dental Society is ...
March 21, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I rise today along with the gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. JONES, to introduce the ''Youth Prison Reduction through Mentoring, Intervention, Support and Educati...
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March 20, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chairman, the underlying Republican budget dismantles the Medicare guarantee. It cuts Medicaid in the last year by 25 percent and includes unspecified cuts in a category cal...
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March 18, 2013
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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, the Simpson-Bowles Commission several years ago set a $4 trillion, 10-year deficit reduction goal as the amount of deficit reduction we needed to get our budget und...
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