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Matt Salmon: I have got a news flash for the American people, and that is the American two-party system we have loved for so long. It…

On the recordApril 1, 1998
I have got a news flash for the American people, and that is the American two-party system we have loved for so long. It is clear with today's goings on it is dead and gone. The Republicans and the Democrats have been replaced by one big mammoth party called the ``republicrats'', and they have one interest, and that is business as usual. My support for the Kasich amendment is typified by this story. It appears there was a young boy who wrote a letter to God asking for $10 because he wanted to buy something. The post office did not know where else to send it, so they sent it to the White House. The President got a kick out of that. He put a dollar in the mail back to the boy. The boy quickly wrote another letter back to God. He said, God, thank you so much for the money that you sent me, but it went by way of Washington, D.C., and they took out $9 and only gave me $1. Could you please send it to me directly next time? I think that is what we are after. We just want to make sure that the money stays in the States, and we cut out the Federal middleman, and all of the money goes to transportation, the needs appropriated by the citizens of the States we live in.
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Matt Salmon
Arizona

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Discussing the influence of the two-party system and support for the Kasich amendment.

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