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On the recordNovember 20, 1989
I also want to commend the Congress for removing, at the Administration's urging, a provision that would have required the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to make highly subsidized direct loans of $252 million.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Statement on Signing the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990

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