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Sam Brownback: I voted against the $787 billion stimulus package because I viewed it as a largely wasteful use of taxpayers' dollars.

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
I voted against the $787 billion stimulus package because I viewed it as a largely wasteful use of taxpayers' dollars.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Brownback criticizes the stimulus package as wasteful and a means to increase government size.

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