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On the recordDecember 8, 2010
Sure. Just real briefly, you had a chart there that showed a lot of different spending schemes, health care, IMF bailout, the bank bailout, the omnibus. We're talking billions of dollars are being spent and all in the name of supposedly good causes. I question many of those as being very ineffective.
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Glenn Thompson
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Dec 8, 2010

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The speaker is addressing concerns about government spending on various programs.

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