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David Obey: “Madam Speaker, what I have just heard is absolute total nonsense. The administration does not want to shut down the…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1998
Madam Speaker, what I have just heard is absolute total nonsense. The administration does not want to shut down the government. The administration is asking for one thing, full funding of the census. You are holding those programs hostage. They are not. Let us keep the facts straight. Secondly, what is outrageous is not the administration conduct but the expression of opinion of the Republican representative on this issue last night, who told Democratic representatives that regardless of whether we won or lost the Supreme Court case they did not have any intention of following the court case if we won. That is what is outrageous.
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David Obey
Wisconsin
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Addressing the funding of the census and government shutdown during a House floor debate.

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