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Tom Cole: “If you didn't vote for the Labor H budget that funded a lot…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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A Conversation with Congressman Tom Cole

Published | Video Starts at 43:35

And again, most of the people I see doing this, quite frankly, are not people that voted to help us have the resources that we needed to deal with this in the first place. If you didn't vote for the Labor H budget that funded a lot of this stuff, don't lecture me on what we didn't do, right? I mean, belly up to the bar and cast a vote and spend some resources here on what's an important national investment. And so, again, I think historians will sort all this out. (43:35–43:42)

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Asserts that the Labor H budget funded significant pandemic response efforts.

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