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Lincoln Chafee: “we have had a wonderful presentation just completed about why this Nation does nothing about facing up to the problems…”

On the recordMay 21, 1996
we have had a wonderful presentation just completed about why this Nation does nothing about facing up to the problems that confront us. Sure it is easy to trash any proposal that comes before us. That is what we see. Not one word--not one word about what to do about the crisis our country faces in these entitlement programs in the future years. I find it terribly disappointing that the Senator from Massachusetts chose this opportunity to go out of his way to trash all the proposals that we presented but not a word about doing something about it. Right here we had presented why the Congress of the United States refuses to face up to the problems we have before us.
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
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Addressing the lack of constructive proposals regarding entitlement programs during a Senate debate.

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