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C. W. Bill Young: “The authorizing committee has decided to raise certain points of order in this bill that will make the bill at least $1…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2004
The authorizing committee has decided to raise certain points of order in this bill that will make the bill at least $1 billion over our 302(b) allocation. So in order to bring the bill back down to within the 302(b) allocation, we have to raise these additional points of order to strike out projects that were not authorized. Mr. Chairman, everybody knows the way this system works; that is, we have authorizing committees and we have appropriating committees. The Committee on Appropriations appropriates for those projects and programs that are authorized. In this case, the authorizing committee did not pass a bill; did not pass authorizations; and, frankly, are not even able to extend the existing transportation authorizations to keep the programs going. That is why we find ourselves in this dilemma. The system is not working the way it is supposed to.
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C. W. Bill Young
Republican · Florida
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Discussing budgetary issues related to appropriations and authorizations in a bill.

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