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Tom Price: I hear people say, ``Why on Earth can't people live up to their word? Why can't they do what they said they were going…

On the recordMay 14, 2008
I hear people say, ``Why on Earth can't people live up to their word? Why can't they do what they said they were going to do when they ran for office?'' And the spending is one of the things that gets them so terribly irritated and so terribly annoyed because they see it. My good friend from Texas talked about selling a piece of the Green Mountains in Vermont to a specific entity. That's using hard-earned taxpayer money to benefit one entity. Madam Speaker, that's wrong. That's not the way we ought to do business here.
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Tom Price
Georgia

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Addressing concerns about government spending and accountability to constituents.

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