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Cliff Stearns: if the budget was a dollar and 10 cents was on the floor, I would try to save 10 cents, which is one-tenth of what we…

On the recordMarch 30, 2000
if the budget was a dollar and 10 cents was on the floor, I would try to save 10 cents, which is one-tenth of what we are talking about. So I urge my colleagues to think about it in that term. All the change that we have at home in our bedroom, we save it. We do not throw it in the trash because it might represent one-tenth of a dollar. I am sure the gentleman has pennies at home in a little tray like we all do and these pennies pile up and we go to the bank and take these pennies in. I am sure the gentleman has quarters and dimes. Mr. Chairman, we are only talking about 10 percent of the nonemergency and nondefense. So if my colleagues are keeping in their pocket right now pennies and dimes and quarters, then I would think they would be somebody that would want to support this amendment.
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Cliff Stearns
Florida

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Discussing budget savings during a House committee meeting.

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