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Matt Salmon: “Last year I introduced a piece of legislation that I think could have been dubbed the Personal Responsibility Act. We…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1996
Last year I introduced a piece of legislation that I think could have been dubbed the Personal Responsibility Act. We are going to be talking a lot about personal responsibility this week when we talk about welfare reform. I think most of us know that a couple of years ago there was a real problem within the White House Travel Office
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Matt Salmon
Arizona

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Discussing personal responsibility in relation to welfare reform.

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