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John Garamendi: “I appreciate the opportunity to lobby you. You are in a very important position, as are all of us; 435 of us are going…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
I appreciate the opportunity to lobby you. You are in a very important position, as are all of us; 435 of us are going to make choices about what is important and how we spend our constituents' tax money. And these are choices we are going to make. We often don't really look at it, but the budget that will be forthcoming, the President's budget, and then the response of this House to that budget, will allocate that $4 trillion across a whole variety of programs. We really do have the opportunity here, as we put together the budget and then the appropriations following, to take up the challenge that Mr. Tonko put before us in the State Revolving Fund. Mr. Lieu, thank you so very much for joining us.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Feb 9, 2016

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