These are from appropriated funds. They were in the fiscal year 1995 bill and they were funds that were already appropriated and signed into law, and of course this is a Congress coming back again rescinding action that it had previously taken in the last Congress where both the House and the Senate had passed on this legislation, had sent it to the President for his signature.
Discussing the rescinding of appropriated funds during a congressional debate.
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