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“Texas is going to shrink government until it fits into a woman’s uterus.” – Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, commenting on the sonogram bill by parodying Grover Norquist’s promise to shrink government down to a size he can drown in a bathtub
This article appears in February 25 • 2011.
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