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Greg Stanton: “It's completely inappropriate for these children learning…”

Featuring: Greg Stanton, Democratic | U.S. House, Arizona, District 4

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Greg Stanton and Marcia Mintz Address Funding Freeze Impact on Arizona Boys and Girls Clubs

Published | Video Starts at 12:09

But the learning that goes on here at this club, in the afterschool programs, on the Alhambra sites is equally as important in the development of that child. He will lose because Congress, in a bipartisan way, supports these programs. So It's completely inappropriate for these children learning. But it's also illegal under our system of government to impound funds that have been voted on by Congress and signed into law by the president. And with those funds being impounded, what are your greatest fears of what might happen? Do you think that these funds might be misused, maybe just be nullified, that they might be taken for some other reason? (12:09–12:22)

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Asserts that impounding funds voted on by Congress and signed into law is illegal.

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