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Roy Blunt: “I do know they gave the House the ability to initiate spending bills and the President the ability to veto. In the…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2007
I do know they gave the House the ability to initiate spending bills and the President the ability to veto. In the context of how much money we are really talking about, the President added a 6.5 percent increase, and then the House-passed bill added $23 billion to that, which is more than the individual budgets of more than 35 of the States. So people, as they look at this discussion that this isn't much money, it is more than all of the money spent by 35 or 36 of the States in the country. You know, I think in that context, $23 billion is a significant amount of money.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri
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Discussing the implications of federal spending and its comparison to state budgets.

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