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Mark Hatfield: Yes. Now when we went to conference, we engaged in a lot of discussion, a lot of debate, and then the questions were…

On the recordApril 6, 1995
Yes. Now when we went to conference, we engaged in a lot of discussion, a lot of debate, and then the questions were raised as to what is the precise figure in that budget. We have the State Department, we have other sources, that have yet to give what we consider satisfactory figures so that we can say exactly how much. So the House made a proposal to the Senate that we reallocate $15 million out of the $75 million; leave, in a sense, a total of $60 million to be revisited at a time when we can get that exact figure, which would probably be in the 1996 cycle, assuming this report passes now as a rescission package. Other discussions might be engendered out of the Foreign Relations Committee. We are not wedded on the basis of that program to say that is in place to last into the indefinite future.
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Mark Hatfield
Oregon

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Discussing budget reallocations during a conference on a rescission package.

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