Tom Harkin: “I ask my friend from Wyoming, I just heard the Senator say this is the authorization process and he did not want to…”

“I ask my friend from Wyoming, I just heard the Senator say this is the authorization process and he did not want to interfere with the appropriations process. Again I ask the Senator, does not your amendment wipe out the appropriations we made last year? Does it not invade the appropriations process? We appropriated this money last year. If I am not mistaken, the Senator's amendment wipes that out. The Senator just said this was authorization, not appropriations, but if you read the amendment, it wipes out our appropriations. Am I reading it wrong? It says 'notwithstanding any other provision of law.' I ask the Senator, does not this invade the $1.2 billion we already appropriated? I will be glad to yield to the Senator.”