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Willie Hefner: “Enough is enough. We need to open this Government and put people back to work and do the business of America that people…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1996
Enough is enough. We need to open this Government and put people back to work and do the business of America that people sent us here to do and that the Federal employees were hired to do to go about doing the business of America.
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Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the need to reopen the government and resume work for federal employees.

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