So we could productively, with community and state support and tremendous consensus, spend these funds for their lawfully authorized purpose if we stopped using them as a phony budget offset, and that is what you are proposing this year.
DeFazio argues for proper funding of conservation projects instead of using funds as budget offsets.
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