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Nancy Pelosi: the $600 million relates to what we think we could hopefully get passed here. If I just may say, with the gentleman's…

On the recordJune 12, 2000
the $600 million relates to what we think we could hopefully get passed here. If I just may say, with the gentleman's yielding, just to clarify what is here on the floor, when I offered this amendment at the time of the emergency supplemental, when no offset would have been required, it was rejected by the majority in the full committee saying that we should go through the regular order, even though drug use in America is an emergency, and that is why we were having an emergency supplemental to send military assistance to Colombia. It was declared an emergency. So then when they said go the regular order, we go to full committee and were defeated, and are now bringing it to the floor to point out the imbalance in our values, where we will give a tax cut instead of giving drug treatment to reduce drug consumption in America. So the $600 million relates to that.
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Nancy Pelosi
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding for drug treatment versus tax cuts during a debate on emergency supplemental appropriations.

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