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Jack Kingston: They have a $200 million carryover, and so the discussion of saying that there are children starving and because of this…

On the recordJuly 22, 1997
They have a $200 million carryover, and so the discussion of saying that there are children starving and because of this we have got to give the benefit of the doubt is totally specious, totally emotional, total demagoguery. The children are not starving. The only thing we are going to do here is increase the bureaucracy on the backs of the American farmer. That is what we are talking about.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing government spending and its impact on American farmers.

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