Earl Pomeroy said "Reclaiming my time. Let me really take issue with the gentleman from Florida from the majority when he says that the Budget Act has been fully complied with. It has not. There is a procedure. The procedure is, first of all, the House and Senate have to pass a budget resolution by April 15. Obviously, that has not taken place. There is a fail-safe provision, because I will be the first to admit the Democratic majority routinely blew that April 15 deadline. But the follow-up provision is that the Committee on the Budget chairman must submit a letter with the spending allocations. Here the gentleman from Florida says he has no letter from the Committee on the Budget chairman. He says that the act has been fully complied with, but he has no letter. That cannot be case." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 19, 1998

Reclaiming my time. Let me really take issue with the gentleman from Florida from the majority when he says that the Budget Act has been fully complied with. It has not. There is a procedure. The procedure is, first of all, the House and Senate have to pass a budget resolution by April 15. Obviously, that has not taken place. There is a fail-safe provision, because I will be the first to admit the Democratic majority routinely blew that April 15 deadline. But the follow-up provision is that the Committee on the Budget chairman must submit a letter with the spending allocations. Here the gentleman from Florida says he has no letter from the Committee on the Budget chairman. He says that the act has been fully complied with, but he has no letter. That cannot be case.

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Earl Pomeroy

North Dakota

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing compliance with the Budget Act during a debate.

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