National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014

Floor Speech

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Mr. DOYLE. First off, I want to thank my good friend Joe Barton--he is my good friend--for a good game last night.

I can't really single out individuals. This was a team effort on the Democratic side. Our team had 24 hits and no errors in the field. Cedric Richmond normally strikes out a lot of batters, and, last year, Cedric had 16 strikeouts. For the first five innings, Cedric didn't strike out a single batter. We had 15 putouts in the field. When you hit the ball, we fielded it, and we made the throws to first, and we made the plays.

It was the best team effort that I've seen out of the Democratic side in the 19 years I've been associated with the game, and I want to congratulate my team.

As my good friend Joe Barton knows, the real winners of this game are three charities. We broke a record this year. We raised $300,000 for our charities--the Washington Boys & Girls Club, the Washington Literacy Council, and the Dream Foundation, which is going to help children in the Seventh Ward in Washington, D.C. This is going to be a great program for the kids--for boys and girls to learn baseball, but also to learn more important things in after-school learning centers and the like.

So, to the charities--the real winners of this game--congratulations.

This is a great tradition that helps bring us together. I can tell you that the members of the Republican baseball team are friends of ours, and we enjoy the camaraderie and the game every year, and we look forward to it again next year.

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