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On the recordFebruary 4, 1998
reclaiming my time, what I am trying to say is that not being able to think of anything to say himself, borrowing a wholly irrelevant comment from the Vice President does not seem to me to advance the gentleman's argument. Because the argument is one, the gentleman from Arizona is simply wrong when he claims that this has anything to do with saving $285,000. It does not. It does not save a nickel. A judge ordered that the money be paid. Now, the Majority wants to make some political hay. They know better than to actually defy the judge's order. They have not offered a resolution to defy the judge's order. So what they tell us is a resolution which it is the sense of Congress that the judge's order ought to be defied, knowing full well that no one is going to defy it. They claim in this that they are going to be saving some money. In fact the only impact this debate will have on the Treasury is the extra few thousand dollars it will cost us to print this silly debate.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Addressing a debate regarding a judge's order and claims of saving money.

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