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Jim Kolbe: “I can only respond, of course, for the Treasury bill. He is correct, it is about $1.2 billion over the allocation. My…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2000
I can only respond, of course, for the Treasury bill. He is correct, it is about $1.2 billion over the allocation. My question to him in return would be, is the gentleman saying that the money is too much, that we should not have these funds in there? Because earlier on the floor, just to let me finish my comment, earlier on the floor when we were debating the Treasury-Postal bill, we heard from every person over on that side of the aisle that was debating it that it was woefully inadequate, woefully insufficient funds and that it needed more money in order to get into a signable form. We think we have done that. We put more money in to make it into a signable form. I would just inquire of the gentleman, is the money too much? Is the gentleman saying that we have put too much? If so, I would certainly like to know that so that maybe we could change some of that.
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Jim Kolbe
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Responding to a colleague's concerns about funding levels in the Treasury-Postal bill.

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