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Joseph Skeen: due to tremendous resource constraints and competing priorities, the Committee on Appropriations was forced to offset…

On the recordJune 23, 1998
due to tremendous resource constraints and competing priorities, the Committee on Appropriations was forced to offset the costs for existing programs and other new initiatives by eliminating this new and vital research program.
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Joseph Skeen
Republican · New Mexico

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Discussing budgetary decisions affecting research programs.

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