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Kent Conrad: I tried to be as frank and forthcoming as I could be. When the Senator says there were no categorizations, there were. I…

On the recordApril 11, 2003
I tried to be as frank and forthcoming as I could be. When the Senator says there were no categorizations, there were. I would be happy to enter it into the Record. It is not true to say there were not. There were. You had the discretionary spending amount and the other elements that I described for the highway category, for the discretionary category. I don't know what the Senator is looking at.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Addressing claims about categorizations in discretionary spending during a Senate debate.

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