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On the recordMarch 10, 1994
I go back to this: Where are we dealing with rhetoric? The rhetoric, it seems to me, at this point, what the people here in Washington are saying is that the rhetoric at home is to cut spending first, but that they do not mean it. They want pork barrel coming in. I do not believe that. I believe the real rhetoric is here with the people in Washington, Those people who are trying to get reelected and say, ``We would like to cut spending.'' The rhetoric is here, it is time for us to show what we really are in this situation. We are going to vote on it. I hope the people of this body will refer back to what the folks at home want and need and vote for this bill and say that the rhetoric is here in Washington, it is not at home.
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Jay Dickey
Arkansas
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Addressing the disconnect between political rhetoric on spending and actual intentions in Congress.

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