Pete Domenici: “There is no such presumption. The Senate assumptions are as equally valid as the House assumptions. The real challenge…”

“There is no such presumption. The Senate assumptions are as equally valid as the House assumptions. The real challenge lies ahead when the Appropriations Subcommittees begin marking up their separate appropriations bills. Since our budget assumptions are just that--assumptions--and do not bind appropriators to specified funding levels for individual programs, Senators must vigorously continue to make their case for funding favored programs with the relevant Appropriations Subcommittee. I do know that the State-side land acquisition program could not have better advocates than the Senators from Rhode Island and New Hampshire.”