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Tom Harkin: “What the Enzi amendment does this year is it takes away the $1.2 billion going out to States. That has already been…”

On the recordMay 16, 2001
What the Enzi amendment does this year is it takes away the $1.2 billion going out to States. That has already been appropriated. He wipes that out. Then on the revolving loan fund the Senator talked about, he says ``shall be made available to carry out this section for each fiscal year amounting to 20 percent of the total amount of the Federal budget.'' What all that means is that after this year we impact the money for impact aid and Indian schools. They are going to take 20 percent of that money and put it in the revolving loan fund. So here the Senator from Wyoming purports in his amendment that he wants to help Indian schools and he wants to help impact aid, but in the second part of the amendment he takes money out of those programs to put it into a revolving loan fund.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of the Enzi amendment on funding for Indian schools and impact aid.

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