Pete Domenici: “I will take my 30 seconds in support of the amendment. This would take the place of the Specter-Harkin amendment which…”

“I will take my 30 seconds in support of the amendment. This would take the place of the Specter-Harkin amendment which had added $2.7 billion, more or less, to one function of the Government. Instead of doing that, the Senator from New Mexico adds $4 billion to the overall budget and it can be used for education and the other purposes within it. This can amount to a nondefense discretionary freeze spending level and we have arrived at that as a freeze off the 1996 consolidated rescissions bill. Once one had it all figured out, this is the amount of money required to make it a freeze.”