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On the recordFebruary 25, 2010
Of the stimulus funds currently sitting there, they have been obligated. They will be spent. There won't be a surplus, we are told, of any funds. This would have come out during the course of the debate, if Senator Bunning had accepted our offer of the amendment. To agree to this now is to basically agree to what he has been asking for, just say we will pay for it with the stimulus. I don't think it should be, and I don't think it can be. It should be the subject of a good floor debate. That is what the Senate is for.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Feb 25, 2010

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Senator Durbin discusses the allocation and obligations of stimulus funds during a Senate debate.

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