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Bob Schaffer: that has been our objective here in Congress as a Republican majority is to chop this waste, fraud and abuse out of…

On the recordOctober 4, 2000
that has been our objective here in Congress as a Republican majority is to chop this waste, fraud and abuse out of Federal agencies to begin to consolidate programs so that we can send money back to the States in larger chunks with fewer moving parts so that there is more accountability and we involve more local leaders in the disbursement of those funds. In that way we really are not talking about spending more money on education per child but spending less over time in what is budgeted for all this wasted money that takes place here under the Clinton administration. And so, it is a positive message that we are about, it is a proactive agenda that we are trying to unfold here in Washington. It is a different agenda which our Democrat friends and the Clinton-Gore administration have presided over for the last 8 years. {time} 1400 In their own words, it could not be made any clearer by the Vice President himself when he said, in other words, if a publicly traded corporation kept its books the way the Federal Government does, the Securities and Exchange Commission would close it down immediately. They knew that back in 1993 when they printed this.…
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Bob Schaffer

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Discussing the Republican agenda to reduce waste and improve accountability in federal spending.

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