House Proceeding on Jun 25th, 2009 :: 2:42:25 to 2:43:40
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Elijah E. Cummings: other facilities and military installations around the country. i urge support of the en bloc amendment and this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from new jersey. >> i yield one minute to r. cummings of maryland.

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Speech By: Elijah E. Cummings

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Elijah E. Cummings: the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: thank you for yielding. i rise in strong support of a great bill, fiscal year defense of 2010. by including the national guard

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Elijah E. Cummings: and reserves, we ensure that d.o.d. does not present quonk an incomplete recommendation regarding the misrepresentation of the -- the representation of gender and ethnic specific groups within the armed services. my passion is to ensure that our armed services are representative of america and of the leadership -- and that the leadership line he reflects

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Elijah E. Cummings: our diversity and this amendment ensures when the study and competion of this is calculated, the national guard and reserve are included. we can and must do better for