Samuel Nunn: “So those of us who are concerned about the effect on defense of the…”

On the recordMarch 23, 1994

So those of us who are concerned about the effect on defense of the Exon-Grassley amendment--which would have something like a 60-percent effect on defense, in that neighborhood depending on the allocations of the Appropriations Committee--if those of us who are concerned about defense would be in a position, if the Lott amendment passes, to have no offset on defense cuts in the Exon-Grassley amendment, because those would have been used up, or at least the one that we had in mind would have been used up. Is that correct?

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Samuel Nunn

Democratic · Georgia

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Discussing the impact of the Exon-Grassley amendment on defense funding.

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