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Jim Nussle: “There will be one person who will probably, above all other people, and my guess is that that will be shared in a…”

On the recordOctober 26, 2000
There will be one person who will probably, above all other people, and my guess is that that will be shared in a bipartisan way from both sides of the aisle, who stood just a little bit taller than the rest of the politicians and Representatives and Senators and Presidents, and that is John Kasich. He wrote his first budget in 1989. Now, you have got to remember back to what this was like. Here he is a junior Member of Congress coming in and having the audacity to say, I can write my own budget.
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Jim Nussle
Iowa

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Paying tribute to John Kasich's contributions during a late-night session.

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