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Dale Bumpers: I think $17 billion is the right figure, roughly $17 billion in nuclear, is there not, in the bill?

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
I think $17 billion is the right figure, roughly $17 billion in nuclear, is there not, in the bill?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas

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Discussing funding figures related to nuclear provisions in a bill.

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