Arlen Specter: “I don't know how this percentage worked. I am advised that with this provision there would be an across-the-board 6.75…”

“I don't know how this percentage worked. I am advised that with this provision there would be an across-the-board 6.75 percent cut to bring the bill under the allocation. I am not sure of that math, although that is the representation made to me. If you take $2.4 billion out of $104.5 billion, that, it would seem to me, would be under 3 percent. But it would be very material.”