let me read a quote. What I cannot defend is sending a blank check to local politicians across the country for them to decide how to spend it. That was said by your Speaker, then minority whip Newt Gingrich, on this floor on June 23, 1994. So will the gentleman concede that there must be some grain of truth to what we are saying if someone as exalted as your own Speaker, who seems to state things in unequivocal terms, said that?
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