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Dick Durbin: “I wish to ask the majority leader, does he recall the time I returned from the Appropriations Committee and said Senator…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2010
I wish to ask the majority leader, does he recall the time I returned from the Appropriations Committee and said Senator McConnell had come to the committee and said he was going to establish the maximum amount that he would vote for in all the appropriations bills, the 203(b) allocation of $1.108 trillion? And I said to the majority leader, I think ultimately that is what we are going to be voting for, Senator McConnell's number. Is the Senator from Nevada aware of the fact that the bill we were going to consider was at that number that was asked for by Senator McConnell in the Appropriations Committee?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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govinfo.gov
Dec 16, 2010

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Senator Durbin discusses appropriations and a proposed funding limit set by Senator McConnell.

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