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Cliff Stearns: “Does the gentleman think money grows on trees? Where does the IMF get the money, if Congress does not give it to them?…”

On the recordApril 23, 1998
Does the gentleman think money grows on trees? Where does the IMF get the money, if Congress does not give it to them? Why are we voting on this tonight, if the gentleman does not think we are going to appropriate? Could the gentleman explain that?
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Cliff Stearns
Florida

Editor's note · Context

Questioning funding for the IMF during a congressional debate.

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