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On the recordFebruary 26, 1998
Back to Washington. We go through them and say whoa, you might have been lucky and got it all through the first time. We say, it looks like Wisconsin is qualified to get X amount of dollars, so we send the dollars back to you and you can do what you want with them, right?
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the allocation of federal funds to states.

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