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Paul Ryan: This bill takes $10 million from border security to commit $10 million of taxpayer funds to hire defense attorneys for…

On the recordDecember 17, 2007
This bill takes $10 million from border security to commit $10 million of taxpayer funds to hire defense attorneys for illegal immigrants. The point is, Mr. Speaker, this is a bad day for this House. This is a bad day for the fiscal policy of this country. We are about to vote on a bill that commits about $515 billion in spending, 3,500 pages long, 9,200 earmarks, many we've never seen before; and we're going to vote on this in about 10 minutes, and we'll have had less than 1-hour debate on the entire measure. This is no way to run a railroad, Mr. Speaker, and sadly, it has been run like this in the past. The new day we were promised with the new majority, in fact, is not a new day.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin

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Addressing concerns about a large spending bill and its implications for fiscal policy.

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