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J. Exon: “Mr. President, if the President's appropriated savings are steep, then the Republican appropriations savings are…”

On the recordMay 16, 1996
Mr. President, if the President's appropriated savings are steep, then the Republican appropriations savings are positively cataclysmic. That is the point. Over the 6 years of the budget, the Republican budget cuts $65 billion more from appropriations than does the President. And in the final year of the budget, 2002, the Republicans cut $13 billion more in appropriated spending in that 1 year than does the President. The Senator from Missouri knows that the Appropriations Committee will distribute those cuts--not this resolution. Indeed, neither the Republican budget, nor a Republican budget of any kind, contains program-by-program detail for appropriated accounts. The fairest comparison of appropriations in the outyears, therefore, is to compare totals of spending levels.
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J. Exon
Democratic · Nebraska
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Discussing budget cuts and appropriations during Senate floor debate.

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