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W. Todd Akin: If I could piggy-back in and jump to what you're saying. A couple of weeks ago, we had basically a budget on the floor…

On the recordMarch 2, 2011
If I could piggy-back in and jump to what you're saying. A couple of weeks ago, we had basically a budget on the floor of the House. But the budget, interestingly enough, is what's called the discretionary side. So the budget was for this green, the defense, and this--what is that?--tomato soup. Maybe it's Campbell's tomato soup. This is the non-defense discretionary. So the budget only dealt with this section and we were making cuts to that section. What, of course, you have to ask yourself is, how about all this other stuff? Of course, this wasn't touched. So proceed, please, because I think it's a good story. People need to understand what we're working on was the first thing we had to work on which was the fact there wasn't any budget that we're running on, and so we're trying to put a budget together for between now and October 1, if I recall, sir.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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Mar 2, 2011

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The speaker discusses the limitations of the recent budget focused on discretionary spending.

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