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Cass Ballenger: “What are the real issues facing Americans today? Nonexisting payments for book deals or House historians who are on the…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1995
What are the real issues facing Americans today? Nonexisting payments for book deals or House historians who are on the job for 1 day? I do not think they really care about that. Americans are concerned about the economy. They are concerned with how our Government affects their lives, they are concerned about their children's future. Republicans are ready to debate the real issues facing Americans today. We are ready to clean up Congress and that huge, overbloated Federal bureaucracy. We are ready to pass legislation that our constituents want, like a ban on unfunded mandates and a balanced budget amendment. I implore my colleagues from the other aisle to join with us in a bipartisan fashion to change Congress, not change the subject.
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina
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Addressing the need to focus on substantive issues affecting Americans.

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