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Mark Neumann: “Is this not sort of a picture of what really is going on out here in Washington right now? We are looking at these…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
Is this not sort of a picture of what really is going on out here in Washington right now? We are looking at these programs and we are finding that in Government spending so much of it is eaten up by this Washington bureaucracy and the dollars are not actually getting out to the people they are designed to help; that the cost is astronomical for what winds up being a very small help out there. In fact, would these folks not be better off, would the people of America not be better off if, instead of bringing the money out of their pockets down here to Washington and letting the Washington people spend it, if we just let them keep their own money in their own pocket? Would that not be a much better way to handle the situation?
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin
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Discussing government spending and bureaucracy during a House floor speech.

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