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Byron Dorgan: “LIHEAP is unbelievably important, and we need to find a way to get the money out for LIHEAP. ... my hope is we can get…”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2008
LIHEAP is unbelievably important, and we need to find a way to get the money out for LIHEAP. ... my hope is we can get that done. But having said all of that, again let me say we have a managers' package that perfects--after having negotiated now for several weeks on about five or six very controversial issues, we have negotiated in a way that we have reached a compromise on all of them, satisfactory to all of the parties.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing the importance of the LIHEAP program and a managers' package during Senate floor debate.

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