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Sue Myrick: when we came here and became a majority, we said we were going to change things. We were going to be different. We were…

On the recordApril 1, 1998
when we came here and became a majority, we said we were going to change things. We were going to be different. We were going to balance the budget, which we finally did now for the first time in 30 years. And now we are getting ready to break that commitment by $26 billion, $18 billion of it in special pork projects. That is, in my mind, business as usual. What has changed? It is wrong, and I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. That is the right thing to do.
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Sue Myrick
North Carolina

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Addressing budget commitments and pork projects during a floor debate.

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