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Burgess Owens: I do not know how these process votes, line item veto, balanced budget amendment, which will not spell out where they…

On the recordFebruary 8, 1995
I do not know how these process votes, line item veto, balanced budget amendment, which will not spell out where they are going to go with the balanced budget, some of the amendments that we considered in bills that we considered today, how they will have a specific affect on increasing people's living standards and increasing the spiritual awareness and the spirituality of their lives. I do not see any of that really having a direct effect on people's lives.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Discussing the impact of the Contract With America on American working people.

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