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Marcy Kaptur: “I want to just ask the gentleman a question if I might. Just for clarification purposes, in the report that accompanies…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1997
I want to just ask the gentleman a question if I might. Just for clarification purposes, in the report that accompanies our bill, we did direct the administration with the following language: ``Funds for these initiatives are not available until justification and reprogram requests are approved.'' So I think we put language in the report accompanying the bill to put our subcommittee directly in oversight over what is happening. And I will say to the chairman of our subcommittee, I was hoping our community could get one of these designations. We have several rivers we need help on. But I look forward to working with the gentleman on the language as we move to conference.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing oversight and funding for community river initiatives during a bill discussion.

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