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Nick Lampson: What is unfortunate is that in some of those instances there are even people going out and raising money privately to…

On the recordOctober 23, 2001
What is unfortunate is that in some of those instances there are even people going out and raising money privately to accomplish some of these tasks. That is not appropriate. Many of these functions are of national scope and of national interest, and to have people in a local area having to go out and privately raise money on their own in order to achieve some of these specific tasks does not seem fair or right to me. That is why we have a government. That is why we choose to live in communities where we can all chip in and our few pennies mounted together turn into billions of dollars that can make a difference for all of the people of this country. That is what makes this a good bill, I think, and a very excellent direction in which we should be going to solve these problems.
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Nick Lampson
Texas

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Discussing the importance of government funding for national projects.

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