Haley Stevens: “The original amendment would prohibit the expenditure of funds after September 30, 1997. There are no funds in the bill…”

“The original amendment would prohibit the expenditure of funds after September 30, 1997. There are no funds in the bill for defense to be spent after September 30, 1997. The amendment of the Senator from Texas would prohibit spending funds after June 30, 1998. No funds in the bill will be expended after June 30, 1998. So the amendments take on an image perspective, from the point of view of this Senator. I am certainly not going to oppose them on that point. But I emphasize that they are just a statement of policy. It amounts to a sense-of-the-Congress position about the expenditure of funds. They would not be a barrier to the expenditure of funds under the circumstances of this bill.”