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Joseph Skeen: Well, we just could not push it through the screen that way because we had very severe shortages in funding so we had to…

On the recordJune 11, 1996
Well, we just could not push it through the screen that way because we had very severe shortages in funding so we had to leave it at the level we had it. I am sorry that we could not raise it to $2 million.
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Joseph Skeen
Republican · New Mexico

Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding shortages during a budget debate.

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