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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