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Patricia Schroeder: “I know that the ranking member on the Committee on National Security has spoken to the Speaker, has spoken to all sorts…”

On the recordJune 8, 1995
I know that the ranking member on the Committee on National Security has spoken to the Speaker, has spoken to all sorts of people. We feel this is one of the most fundamental issues there, and we thought people had come here to debate reasonable levels of expenditures. To deny our side the right to offer a very basic amendment that would bring the defense budget, the bloated defense budget, in my opinion, back down to where the Commander in Chief had it and the Pentagon had it I think would be absolutely outrageous, so I am glad to hear the Committee on Rules has not done that and that is a malicious rumor, and I certainly hope the gentleman from New York will not do that, or we are going to have to declare war or something.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Addressing concerns about the defense budget and the right to propose amendments during a debate.

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