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Angie Craig: “I wholeheartedly agree with Attorney General Lance's confidence that the Idaho state legislature is quite capable of…”

On the recordMarch 18, 1999
I wholeheartedly agree with Attorney General Lance's confidence that the Idaho state legislature is quite capable of properly determining how Idaho's share of the tobacco settlement should be spent. It is my strong hope that the Senate will defeat this amendment and allow my state's legislature, and those of the other 49 states, to make these decisions without interference.
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing the allocation of Idaho's share of the tobacco settlement during Senate debate.

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