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Joe Biden: “If the categories all come out of the State Department budget, then let's say let's freeze the State Department budget.…”

On the recordApril 28, 1998
If the categories all come out of the State Department budget, then let's say let's freeze the State Department budget. Nothing can go up in the State Department budget, period. Freeze it, just like we are going to freeze it here. Why not do that? And if an emergency comes along, we can change our mind. It is not a way to do business, I respectfully suggest.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Discussing budgetary constraints on the State Department.

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