On the recordJuly 18, 2003
once again I rise to offer an amendment to cut the level of funding in this appropriations bill, to cut by it approximately $272.1 million, or approximately 1 percent of the total outlays of the bill. The reason it is structured a little differently this time instead of 1 percent across-the-board cut, I do not want there to be any mistake about it, that we mean that 1 percent has to come out of every single program in this bill. There are some wonderful programs in this bill the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hobson) has put together and funded. There are probably some programs that the gentleman would agree need more money, and there may be some programs that the gentleman would agree probably should go out of existence because they are not working very well, so they should be eliminated. The way this is structured is if we cut these funds, it would be up to the administration to decide where these cuts should go.
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