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Tom Tancredo: I am all for art. And I can assure Members, if we defeat this amendment, and if we struck all funding for the National…

On the recordJuly 17, 2002
I am all for art. And I can assure Members, if we defeat this amendment, and if we struck all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, there would still be art. It actually existed before the National Endowment for the Arts. It actually was able to thrive, to be nurtured by individuals, to somehow find its way into the public life before the National Endowment for the Arts and certainly before this amendment was even thought of.
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Tom Tancredo
Colorado

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Debating the funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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