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Mike Levin: If the Senator from Alaska will yield on that point, I do happen to agree with him in terms of his comment on the…

On the recordJuly 17, 1996
If the Senator from Alaska will yield on that point, I do happen to agree with him in terms of his comment on the authorizing committee. Some of us made an effort in committee to totally eliminate those earmarks. We failed by, I think, one vote in committee. We ended with a sort of hybrid: some of the money earmarked and some not. I agree, the fact some of it is earmarked in the Senate authorization bill does make your work more difficult in conference. I happen to regret that because I am on the generic side of this debate, but it is a fact of life.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing earmarks in the context of Senate authorization during committee deliberations.

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