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Todd Tiahrt: last night on NBC's television program called ``The Fleecing of America,'' it was revealed that Clinton's Department of…

On the recordMay 9, 1996
last night on NBC's television program called ``The Fleecing of America,'' it was revealed that Clinton's Department of Agriculture has hired a political pollster for $33,000, our tax dollars, by the way, to go out and poll some political people, white Americans only. This particular pollster is known for polling for Democrat women. And so she went out and polled, in Kansas by the way, white Americans not Hispanics, not blacks but white Americans, in Kansas, the swing voters, to find out how they were feeling about the Food Stamp Program. It just so happens that the House chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, the gentleman from Kansas, [Mr. Roberts], is running for the Senate against a female opponent in Kansas. But our tax dollars were being spent to find out what the Kansas public was thinking. How long is the American public going to put up with this? How long is the American public going to allow their tax dollars to be used for political purposes by this administration? I ask Secretary Glickman to ask Under Secretary Haas to resign.
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Todd Tiahrt
Kansas

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Addressing the misuse of taxpayer dollars by the Department of Agriculture for political polling.

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