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Pete Domenici: “I ask the Senator, one of the reasons that that precipitous fall occurs, even under the OMB budget, is because the…”

On the recordJune 12, 1996
I ask the Senator, one of the reasons that that precipitous fall occurs, even under the OMB budget, is because the President desires to tell the American people that certain parts of Government are going to get increased and so he has built into that budget these very large increases for education, for the environment, which end up, if you go that high on them, you have to take it out of somewhere else. That is where the veterans get that big cut the Senator has spoken to.
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Discussing budget impacts on education, environment, and veterans during Senate debate.

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