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Cliff Stearns: “These are all rhetorical questions. You can use your time. You worked as hard as you could to represent a 2 percent cut…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1995
These are all rhetorical questions. You can use your time. You worked as hard as you could to represent a 2 percent cut as the maximum the NEA could take, The gentleman from Illinois said 1 percent was all he could accept. By golly, now, we are taking 39 percent. I am asked for another 10 percent tonight, another 10-percent cut. I ask people on this side to realize there has got to be some stewardship when the chairwoman of the NEA says it is all right to give money to this.
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Cliff Stearns
Florida
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Discussing budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts during a House floor debate.

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