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Don Nickles: “Let me further try to clarify so I will know and maybe just help us tomorrow when we are considering these amendments.…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1995
Let me further try to clarify so I will know and maybe just help us tomorrow when we are considering these amendments. Under the proposal of the Senator from California, it benefits 27 States. You do not change the amount of money. So you spread it out over a few more States. Senator Dole's proposal would have additional for the growth States that have large increases in poverty. It would benefit 19 States. So presumably they would do a little bit better. So you are dividing up the same amount of money as compared to your growth proposal. We will have charts to make an analysis or comparison under both proposals.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Discussing the impact of two different proposals on state funding during a Senate debate.

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