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George Voinovich: “If we look at the practicality, I just used these numbers because it was 10 percent a year. But the fact is a budget…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2004
If we look at the practicality, I just used these numbers because it was 10 percent a year. But the fact is a budget point of order will lie against the numbers that you are projecting in the budget that came out of the Budget Committee. In other words, if we exceed your numbers, you are saying this number I am proposing is going to provide we can spend up to that amount of money. I am saying the number coming out of the Budget Committee creates a point of order you can't go beyond.
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George Voinovich
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Discussing budgetary constraints during a Senate floor debate.

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