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Jay Dickey: Reclaiming my time, all I am trying to say, for the sake of the people who might be listening to this conversation, is…

On the recordAugust 3, 1995
Reclaiming my time, all I am trying to say, for the sake of the people who might be listening to this conversation, is that your talking should be to them, not to us. If we had been successful on our end of the table late that one night for Head Start, we would have $161 million restored. Not one of your colleagues voted in favor of that because they wanted to honor things like lawyers, and they wanted to honor the NLRB that is going out here and causing destruction in our economy and walking over people who are trying to keep jobs in place so that we can have taxes so we can have more money for education. All I am saying is it does not seem proper. It is not right that we get to the point where we start talking about you all over there, or you all over there, when we are all trying to help Head Start.
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Jay Dickey
Arkansas

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Addressing funding issues for the Head Start program during a debate.

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