Statement on the Death of Senator Theodore E. Burton
10/28/1929
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These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
One never makes a statement like that.
The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign...
Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.