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Patricia Schroeder: “the point is we are only going after this one part of the budget. This is the one agency that had the fiscal meltdown.…”

On the recordMay 22, 1996
the point is we are only going after this one part of the budget. This is the one agency that had the fiscal meltdown. We are holding it level at this year's amount. Yes, of course, we need satellites but we also need language skills, people on the ground, all sorts of different kinds of information; and that is not cut or held even by this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I think it is just real important. I think that the debate that would have gone on if the civilian agency had done this would have been of an entirely different tenor on this floor. People would have been jumping to the mike, demanding the head of the agency be delivered down here and everything else. I am really amazed that all the tap dancing that we have done around this. I think this is a simple amendment, and I certainly hope it passes.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Discussing budget amendments related to a specific agency's fiscal issues.

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