On the recordJune 22, 2000
that is what we are asking to do by denying the Ryan amendment. If we are only able to spend $5 for hamburgers, but yet we know we have other priorities where we want to spend the money, in the Committee on Appropriations we want the flexibility to do that. If we put it in the lockbox, as I understand the amendment, then we spend the $5 and we will not have the flexibility to pay the gas and pay the electric bills. I think what we are asking and saying is that the concept is good, but in the procedure and the process as we try to work in funding the government, and programs that people may want or we think are important, we lose that flexibility. I think that is why the debate is against the Ryan amendment.
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