Pete Domenici: “First, let us talk a minute about the U.S. attorneys. The amendment that we have funds the U.S. attorneys at $28 million…”

“First, let us talk a minute about the U.S. attorneys. The amendment that we have funds the U.S. attorneys at $28 million above the U.S. House of Representatives. Frankly, I do not believe the U.S. House of Representatives would be cutting U.S. attorneys knowing the subcommittees over there and what their desires are about crimefighting. The U.S. attorneys, under this proposal, will increase $87 million. No cut. U.S. attorneys in America will have a 10-percent increase. So whatever the good Senator from Texas said, we are providing $87 million in new money for U.S. attorneys; not a cut, an increase.”