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House Republican Whip Roy Blunt on the Omnibus

December 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

House Republican Whip Roy Blunt joined Sen. Tom Coburn and Rep. Jeb Hensarling at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday to address conservative bloggers about the omnibus. Click below to watch video of Blunt’s opening remarks.

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To some in Washington, $20 billion over budget may not sound like much. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) shrugged it off as “table scraps.” But $20 billion is real money to taxpayers. To reach that amount would take every federal income tax dollar paid in 2005 by residents of North Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Delaware and Maine combined.

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