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Charles Norwood: “Even if they do not call it back up, it is going to tell the American people who to vote out of the Senate in 1996. I…”

On the recordMarch 2, 1995
Even if they do not call it back up, it is going to tell the American people who to vote out of the Senate in 1996. I mean I know the message sent to me was that we want to stop the spending. The American people know we owe $5 trillion. They know we are borrowing over $250 billion every year, and they know that math does not work. These children in the pictures are in trouble all right, but it is not because we are not funding WIC, and it is not because they are not going to get their school lunch program. It is because in 20 years they are not going to have a way to make a living because we are broke.
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Charles Norwood
Georgia

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Discussing fiscal responsibility and its impact on future generations.

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