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On the recordJanuary 23, 1995
The other possibility, if I may ask the Senator to yield, is that we are overfunding. We do not want to be appropriating more money or requiring the appropriation of more money than is needed to do the job. They are both unacceptable, either to appropriate less money, if it is our determination to fund the mandate, or to appropriate more money than required.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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Discussing budget appropriations and funding mandates.

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