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On the recordApril 3, 2003
This particular amendment that I am addressing would simply point out all of the funding that is being done in this supplemental appropriation, and it would raise the question of why if we are building schools and providing universal health care, if we are doing it in Afghanistan and Iraq, doing it in other countries that are not even associated with the war, why not do it right here at home in America?
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Discussing funding priorities in a supplemental appropriation bill.

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