Douglas Alexander: “My sense of this amendment is that it understands human nature pretty…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 2007

My sense of this amendment is that it understands human nature pretty well. Is it not the Senator's experience as Governor, and as a member of the Appropriations Committee for a long time, that sometimes items slip through, and that the idea here would be for the President to be able to just send it back to Congress and say: Don't you want to take a second look at this before you actually spend taxpayers' money? Is that not the general idea that is expressed by this amendment?

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Douglas Alexander

Labour Party

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Discussing an amendment related to congressional oversight of spending.

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Douglas Alexander: “My sense of this amendment is that it understands human nature pretty well. Is it not the Senator's experience as…”

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