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Steve Stockman: Which now we realized we spent more money on busing and we should have been spending it on schools.

On the recordJuly 26, 1996
Which now we realized we spent more money on busing and we should have been spending it on schools.
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Steve Stockman
Texas

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Discussing education funding and busing during a floor speech.

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