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Burgess Owens: “I hear language, and a central program is not the same as a mandate. We have tricks here of the trade which all of us…”

On the recordMay 16, 1997
I hear language, and a central program is not the same as a mandate. We have tricks here of the trade which all of us who have been legislators understand very well. It leaves it wide open for the strangling. The summer youth program will not die in one summer. It will be strangled slowly because it is in there with other disadvantaged youth programs which have not been treated in any favorable manner. They will be transferring funds from the summer youth program into the other programs until there will be little left.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Discussing the impact of funding changes on youth programs.

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