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Dan Burton: “in 1996 in the foreign aid authorization bill for fiscal year 1996 and 1997, the House Committee on International…”

On the recordJune 5, 1996
in 1996 in the foreign aid authorization bill for fiscal year 1996 and 1997, the House Committee on International Relations authorized only $419,000,000, $5,000,000 in operating expenses for AID for fiscal year 1997. The cut in this amendment would bring the total operating expenses level down to what was authorized but never enacted into law by our committee. This amount was later increased to $465 million. What we are trying to do here is to reduce by $46,554,000 the operating expenses for AID. This is what was authorized by the Committee on International Relations and we think it should not be exceeded.
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Dan Burton
Indiana
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Discussing funding levels for the foreign aid authorization bill during House debate.

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