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On the recordFebruary 2, 1995
I know that the gentleman is sincere, but I wanted to ask one question. What would prevent a group of projects that some might call pork being put together to get over the 200 million mark? There was some creative budgeting done back home where I come from, and I am just trying to understand how would the gentleman guard against that in this particular amendment.
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Chaka Fattah
Pennsylvania

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Questioning the potential for misuse of funding in a proposed amendment.

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