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James Barrett: Again, broken promises. One of the ways that the Democrats want to fund all this new spending is reserve funds. And you…

On the recordMarch 26, 2007
Again, broken promises. One of the ways that the Democrats want to fund all this new spending is reserve funds. And you talk about a shell game. We are talking about setting up reserve funds so we can spend more money, but there is actually no money in the reserve funds because we are going to put the money in there later on.
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James Barrett
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing funding methods for new spending during a debate.

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