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Joe Cunningham: “If we take this dollar and we only have half of it--and I carried this dollar for 40 years because of a lesson that my…”

On the recordOctober 23, 1997
If we take this dollar and we only have half of it--and I carried this dollar for 40 years because of a lesson that my father taught me, I am not going to get into that today. But if we take half of this dollar and leave it here in Washington, then we are cutting education. That is what has been happening. The liberals that claim that they support education are actually cutting education every single day.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Discussing the impact of budget decisions on education funding.

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