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Gilbert Gutknecht: “Every Sunday, families sit around their coffee tables and their kitchen tables and they clip over 80 million coupons out…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2000
Every Sunday, families sit around their coffee tables and their kitchen tables and they clip over 80 million coupons out of the Sunday paper, worth an average of 53 cents, and that is how they balance their budgets every single week. They watch their pennies. Now, we still have an awful lot of waste in the Federal Government. I will not be one to say that we do not have waste. But we have much more accountability, and I think we have less waste today than we have had in the last 10 years.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the importance of budgeting and waste in the Federal Government.

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