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Wayne Allard: “My understanding is they actually did not get into the spending, because we were in session late last year, until the…”

On the recordJune 25, 2002
My understanding is they actually did not get into the spending, because we were in session late last year, until the second quarter. So when you get into second-quarter spending on a full year's allocation, obviously you are not going to have the opportunity to spend all the dollars. It is not because the need is not there, it is just because we were in session so late last year, in December, and that is the reason those dollars that were budgeted did not get spent. I have all the confidence in the world we probably will catch up with that.
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Discussing budget spending delays during a congressional session.

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