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Doc Hastings: “Mr. Speaker, once again this is the third of three settlement bills. The arguments that I had made on the first two…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2010
Mr. Speaker, once again this is the third of three settlement bills. The arguments that I had made on the first two bills are applicable to this one. I will just add one other point. And that is that these three bills have a cost to the taxpayer of a half a billion dollars, $500 million. And there certainly is an unrest in this country as to what this Congress has done in a fiscal manner. This is small. We are talking about millions, when other programs we are talking about in this Congress unfortunately total trillions. But if we need to get our house in order, this is simply something that we need to have more information on before we pass judgment on it.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington
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Jan 21, 2010

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The speaker discusses the fiscal implications of settlement bills and the need for more information before making decisions.

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