On the recordJanuary 25, 1995
I am on this floor for the first time. I am a freshman Member of this Congress. I have not served in any public office before. But I did serve a period of 7 years in the Arizona attorney general's office. Then I was hired to advise the Arizona State Legislature. I sat in on literally hundreds of meetings in those capacities where a member of the Arizona legislature would be present and a constituent or a group of constituents would come forward and they were well-intended, serious, concerned citizens. And they would come forward and explain to the members of the Arizona legislature their dire need, this severe problem this, unmet problem in society which government could solve. In Arizona it was easy for the citizens to get to their legislature and to go and implore their members of the legislature to help solve this problem with one little program. That same scene happens here in Washington thousands of times every day.
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