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Sam Brownback: My point in making that is to say we have a real situation here, well known, extraordinarily documented, and we have the…

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
My point in making that is to say we have a real situation here, well known, extraordinarily documented, and we have the ability to pay for it. And before we pay ourselves in the legislative branch bill, let's pay the American families a little something. That seems to me to make eminent sense of something we should do.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

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Discussing the need to prioritize American families in budget considerations.

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