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Byron Dorgan: Compared to what we will hear this afternoon, a request for $200 billion of emergency funding for the war in Iraq and…

On the recordSeptember 26, 2007
Compared to what we will hear this afternoon, a request for $200 billion of emergency funding for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, none of it paid for, and this is a fraction of that to reach out to try to provide health insurance to America's children, particularly America's poor children.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing funding for health insurance for children in contrast to military spending.

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