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Willie Hefner: “I think what we should do is pursue active funding for impact aid for our military bases for quality of life programs…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1997
I think what we should do is pursue active funding for impact aid for our military bases for quality of life programs which the gentleman from California [Mr. Packard] and I have worked very hard to do, to see that we can have retention for qualified people in our military. But I do not think that it is really kosher for us to come here and pretend to say that if you are going to give this money to NLRB that all these people are going to suffer so much because they do not get the impact aid. This seems to me not a real good, honest argument to make.
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Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding for military impact aid and criticizing arguments against it.

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