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Saxby Chambliss: “I remind the gentleman that, as he well knows, in our budget resolution that we are going to vote on today there is no…”

On the recordApril 14, 1999
I remind the gentleman that, as he well knows, in our budget resolution that we are going to vote on today there is no reduction in employees in the Farm Service Agency. We are not going to micromanage what the Agriculture Department does in their budget. The House Committee on Agriculture, of which the gentleman is a member, along with myself, and he and I work very closely on these very issues, is going to make that decision on how we manage the budget that is handed to us with the Department of Agriculture.
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Saxby Chambliss
Republican · Georgia
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Discussing the budget resolution and its impact on the Farm Service Agency.

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