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Hal Rogers: “Let me remind the body that just today the majority whip said on the floor, and he is correct, this comes out of the…”

On the recordAugust 4, 1999
Let me remind the body that just today the majority whip said on the floor, and he is correct, this comes out of the on-budget surplus; it does not come out of Social Security. The emergency declaration that we have, the $4.5 billion that we are talking about on the census, comes out of the on-budget surplus, not out of Social Security.
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Hal Rogers
Republican · Kentucky

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Addressing funding sources for emergency spending during a congressional debate.

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