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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Should we continue to spend $14 million an hour in Iraq? Fourteen million dollars an hour is what we are spending in…”

On the recordApril 14, 2008
Should we continue to spend $14 million an hour in Iraq? Fourteen million dollars an hour is what we are spending in Iraq. Yet we can't come up with the funding that we need to make sure that all the kids in this country that are eligible for Head Start and for subsidized child care can actually go.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding priorities related to child care and education versus military spending.

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