But alas, the team had to wait until his contract was up to cut bait.

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Revis is one of the highest-paid players on a team that just cut five players to get under the league's mandated salary cap, and his contract is up after next season.

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For that 1994 vote, Republicans put forth their "Contract With America, " in which they pledged to clean up congressional ethics, cut the congressional payroll, simplify federal budgeting practices, and make it more difficult to pass tax increases, among other things.

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