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Willie Hefner: “We are not talking about posh offices, showers and all of these sorts of things. We are talking about impact aid. The…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1997
We are not talking about posh offices, showers and all of these sorts of things. We are talking about impact aid. The impact aid, if the gentleman is opposed to NLRB, maybe he should have an amendment to do away with any funding for NLRB, but to make the case, which the gentleman said earlier, do you want to put the money in for Washington bureaucrats, all these special lawyers and what have you, and take it away from these poor children in Arizona and North Carolina and wherever, that is just not, in my view, that is not a real intellectually honest amendment to make at this time.
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Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina

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Discussing the importance of impact aid during a debate on funding.

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