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Sara Jacobs: “If we want to do a little comity here, if we want to do what all of us say we want to do, namely, prohibit the use of…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1996
If we want to do a little comity here, if we want to do what all of us say we want to do, namely, prohibit the use of public funds to pay the union people to do union work, if that is our purpose, and that is my purpose, to prohibit the use of any taxpayers' money, trust fund or otherwise, to pay union representatives or union officials to do work on the taxpayers' money, then that is what the substitute intends to do, accepts that fully. It simply wants to clarify that nothing in this should be interpreted to mean that the union itself must disband and not represent the people with their own money.
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Sara Jacobs
Democratic · California
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Addressing the use of public funds for union work during a debate.

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