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On the recordSeptember 16, 1998
When I go to my town hall meetings and talk to my constituents and say, would you like the growth rate to be a little bit more than inflation, because we are really doing good things with your money out here in Washington, it is kind of like they look at you and say no, because we just have way too much evidence of you doing the wrong thing in Washington with our money. We do not have a high degree of confidence that you need all of this. As a matter of fact, most of my constituents, I would believe, think that we have too much of their money and ask them for too much of their money each and every week when they look at their little pay stub; and they say, wow, this is some money that I probably could spend better than what Washington could spend it. The gentleman has identified we have got the silly little spending out there, the cow, the methane gas study that is going on.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing constituents' concerns about government spending during a floor speech.

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