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Pete Domenici: I am very proud to have him in the Senate, but I am more proud that he is on the Budget Committee. There are people…

On the recordApril 13, 2000
I am very proud to have him in the Senate, but I am more proud that he is on the Budget Committee. There are people talking about what happens in this budget resolution, such as the distinguished Senator, Mrs. Murray, talking about a sense-of-the-Senate resolution as if it were binding on somebody. It is nothing more than what it says. It doesn't affect anything. To the extent we dropped some of her provisions, there were scores of sense-of-the-Senate resolutions in this budget that we did not take. What we did keep was something for which the distinguished occupant of the chair fought hard.
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Pete Domenici

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Discussing the budget resolution and the role of Senate members during a floor speech.

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