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Dale Kildee: “I rise, again with a heavy heart, to oppose this amendment... to enact this amendment would mean the loss of dollars for…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1994
I rise, again with a heavy heart, to oppose this amendment... to enact this amendment would mean the loss of dollars for a number of States... I do oppose the amendment, again with a heavy heart, but I feel that we must oppose it because States will lose dollars under this.
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Dale Kildee
Michigan

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Kildee expresses opposition to an amendment affecting funding for states.

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