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Nita Lowey: “I do not understand how anybody could be against school construction. And when we are talking about a budget, it is just…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1997
I do not understand how anybody could be against school construction. And when we are talking about a budget, it is just impossible for me to believe that anyone could be so forceful in saying the school construction money could not and should not and we will not agree to a budget in which there is school construction money. So I would really call on the Speaker and the leader in the Senate and all my Republican colleagues and Senate colleagues, we now have about 110 cosponsors, to join us in this bill. Let us do it in a bipartisan way and work together to improve our schools.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York

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Addressing the importance of school construction funding during a budget discussion.

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