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Ronald Dellums: “One very quick response to the gentleman is: The logic. Do we build up to build down. To build up we are going to spend…”

On the recordJune 20, 1997
One very quick response to the gentleman is: The logic. Do we build up to build down. To build up we are going to spend billions of dollars and we know we are ultimately going to build down. That is the answer to the gentleman's point, that is the central part of this debate, and that is what needs to be developed. If we accept the logic of spending money going up so we negotiate to go down, the gentleman may have a point. I do not see the point in that, I do not see the wisdom, and I certainly do not see the economics.
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Ronald Dellums
Democratic · California

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Discussing the economic implications of spending in a legislative debate.

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