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On the recordApril 21, 1998
What would happen is we would be sending a tremendous signal across this country that we are through reaching into the pockets, at least willy-nilly reaching into the pockets of the American taxpayers. Because if three-fourths of the Republican Members paralleled the support in the society, three-fourths of all the Republicans voted for this amendment tomorrow, and if 63 percent of all Democrats, as you posed in your question, just like 63 percent of all Democrats across America, voted for this Constitutional amendment tomorrow, it would pass and pass with a very, very wide margin, sending a bullet shot across this wall to the United States Senate and to the President saying this is an important piece of legislation.
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John Shadegg
Arizona

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Discussing the potential impact of a Constitutional amendment on taxpayer funding.

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