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On the recordFebruary 3, 2010
We're not even spending it in the right place. You know, that's a very, very visible kind of thing. You can see a solid rocket voter has a lot of technical kinds of aspects, how those have been developed, and we have an advantage on that from a technology point of view. Now you are basically saying that we're going to give that up for spending it on what, on something like ACORN? That's why a whole lot of people out there are really wondering what we're doing down here. I also was trying to take apart a little bit because we hear some good words, and yet the actions of what we're doing don't seem to fit.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker is discussing budget priorities and concerns over spending decisions.

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