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Dale Bumpers: “So we are only authorizing under this bill, and subject to the 180 days within which the committees have to act, we are…”

On the recordOctober 28, 1997
So we are only authorizing under this bill, and subject to the 180 days within which the committees have to act, we are only authorizing the expenditure of $250 million for Headwaters Forest?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas

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Discussing the authorization of funds for Headwaters Forest.

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