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Timothy Roemer: “My statement would be that the American taxpayers work very hard for the money they send here, and they probably would…”

On the recordJune 26, 1996
My statement would be that the American taxpayers work very hard for the money they send here, and they probably would like to see it spent on shuttle safety or on science like the Galileo program, but not on Russian monkeys going up into space.
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Timothy Roemer
Indiana

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Discussing the allocation of taxpayer money during a debate.

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