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Jon Fox: “That is what gives me hope that we are going to come to a settlement here. We are going to get a balanced budget. We are…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
That is what gives me hope that we are going to come to a settlement here. We are going to get a balanced budget. We are going to make sure programs like Medicare, Medicaid, the environment, children's programs, education, will, in fact, be there for all Americans, but not with the waste we have had over the last 20- 30 years, with the unbridled spending which duplicates much of what is happening in our local districts, and none of the waste that has come from having bureaucracies upon bureaucracies to the extent that we are definitely spending too much.
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Jon Fox
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the need for a balanced budget and the importance of funding essential programs.

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