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Chip Cravaack: “Reclaiming my time, obviously the gentleman from Minnesota does not think any money going into the school trust fund is…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2012
Reclaiming my time, obviously the gentleman from Minnesota does not think any money going into the school trust fund is beneficial. Decisions such as these should not be made by Washington bureaucrats in D.C. They should be made by Minnesotans, and that is how we got into this mess in the first place. The bill merely executes a bipartisan State plan signed by the Governor, State senate file 1750. We cannot trust Washington political appointees with the power to derail this land exchange at the expense of Minnesota schoolchildren and their teachers. I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
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Chip Cravaack
Minnesota
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Sep 12, 2012

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