Don Nickles: “You have to use offsets; $600 million in 1999, we have a total amount of spending on domestic discretionary side. I have…”

“You have to use offsets; $600 million in 1999, we have a total amount of spending on domestic discretionary side. I have the 1997 figure of $288--it is more than that in 1999. I might mention, between 1997 and 1998, it went from $274 to $288, an increase of $14 billion that went into domestic discretionary accounts. I don't have the figure in front of me, what it increases in the next year, but there was $14 billion in increases. You only have outlays of about $600 million. Somewhere in that $288 or almost $300 billion we have to find an offset. I think we should do that.”