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Angie Craig: It was a dramatic vote in the sense that Senators were voting their conscience about where the public wanted the…

On the recordOctober 12, 1998
It was a dramatic vote in the sense that Senators were voting their conscience about where the public wanted the educational dollar to go, not to get bound up in the Federal bureaucracy and have a lot of it spun off here, as the President apparently would want, but for that money to move right back to local units of education. Is that not true, and was that not the goal of this Congress?
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing the allocation of educational funding during a Senate debate.

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