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Kenny Hulshof: There are so many ideas, innovative ideas that are sprouting up like seeds all across this country. I think it is…

On the recordMarch 11, 1997
There are so many ideas, innovative ideas that are sprouting up like seeds all across this country. I think it is incumbent upon us as a body, a legislative body, Mr. Speaker, and again certainly the Government has a role, but I think that role should be a limited role and that government should get out of the way, as the gentleman mentioned, and allow some of these projects to take place and to allow them to grow. A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Speaker, I recall that Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition announced his group's new Samaritan Project which was dubbed as a very bold and compassionate plan to combat poverty and to restore hope, and that project, the Samaritan Project, actually took aim at the economic and moral deficits that pervade a lot of the black and Hispanic inner city neighborhoods.
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Kenny Hulshof
Missouri

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Discussing innovative ideas to combat poverty and the role of government in supporting community projects.

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