03/09/2011
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"I am not yet convinced the new spending category is necessary or advisable."
"But it is not. And if we add it in as mandatory, it just means more things that are going to have the oversight of what we do in our Committee, and therefore, just moves us closer to that time when we..."
"To set up a situation where we may inadvertently be creating more mandatory spending, to me, is not a good idea."
"Well, mandatory spending right now is driving us over the cliff. If we don't do something about our current mandatory spending, the projection is sometime in the early 30s we are going to go over the ..."