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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I am sorry, we are all just champing at the bit tonight, but including in a region where the plight of over 100,000…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2005
I am sorry, we are all just champing at the bit tonight, but including in a region where the plight of over 100,000 people after the hurricane was the result of their poverty. So now we are going to go in, and the second proposal for spending cuts as opposed to rolling back the tax cuts is to repeal or eliminate or delay massive transportation funding, particularly in communities where mass transit is necessary and the only way poor people can get to work is using mass transit. So they are victims of a natural disaster; and now, a few months later, we will make them victims of a congressional disaster.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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