04/21/2000
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"This unrequested funding is unaffordable and should be deleted."
"It is unacceptable that the Committee chose to fund 42 low priority projects and programs at a cost of $303 million that are not even in the Department of Defense long range plan."
"I was asked to give testimony; I did that."
"I did what I was asked to do, and now I've got to go back to work."