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Donald M. Payne: my question, basically, is, with the reprogram appropriator, I am the one that deals with the policy; and so, for…

On the recordJune 26, 2000
my question, basically, is, with the reprogram appropriator, I am the one that deals with the policy; and so, for example, if the combatants in the Congo, which are at the point of agreeing, I have spoken to two presidents of the combatants as we speak, if they agree that there will be the withdrawal, and a third president I will be talking to today, then where does the money come from? Is it withdrawn from the appropriation? How could, then, we move for a peacekeeping in the Congo, because they are days and perhaps weeks away from agreeing to end all hostilities? Where, then, can the money come from?
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Donald M. Payne
New Jersey

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Discussing funding for peacekeeping efforts in the Congo during a congressional session.

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