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Mark Neumann: Foreign operations. We just found it today. There are a series of other things in the same bill that are just…

On the recordSeptember 16, 1998
Foreign operations. We just found it today. There are a series of other things in the same bill that are just fascinating. That is the only thing I can say is it is fascinating. It is equally fascinating as the cow gas study. When you start looking at what the government spends the taxpayers' money on, it is almost as if somehow the people out here forgot that it is not their money. It is the people's money. It is the family of five in Janesville, Wisconsin with two kids at home and a freshman in college that next year is going to get a tax refund of $400 per child and $1,500 for that college tuition, $2,300. That family of five, two kids at home and a freshman in college is literally going to get a tax refund of $2,300 next year. We could have trained more fishermen, I guess, in Ireland or maybe in England or somewhere else; I do not know. We probably could have done some of those things; but, shoot, it seems to me that those families out there in Janesville, Wisconsin and all over this country could spend that money better than if we sent it overseas to train fishermen or launch monkeys into space for that matter.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing government spending and tax refunds during a floor speech.

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