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Gilbert Gutknecht: I was trying to think, how can we use some kind of a prop or some kind of an analogy to demonstrate what this debate is…

On the recordJune 4, 1998
I was trying to think, how can we use some kind of a prop or some kind of an analogy to demonstrate what this debate is all about. Finally, I came upon it. I asked my staff to go out and see if they could not find a nine foot belt. We could not find a nine foot belt. What we found was three belts. We put them all together. It is nine feet long. Every foot of this belt represents $1 trillion. That is how much the Federal Government is going to spend over the next 5 years, $9 trillion.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing the federal budget and spending during a House floor debate.

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