On the recordJuly 17, 1996
It simply renews the ongoing projects and appropriations and activities that are embodied in this bill. It just serves to continue them. It does not bring in new forms of spending or new programs, or in any way impinge upon the vitality of and the purpose of the instant bill. All it does, in its best sense, is on a day that the appropriations cycle has ended by reason of failure to enact a new budget, that those appropriations embodied in this bill simply continue in their life. Therefore, I ask that the Chair rule that this is simply a mechanism for continuing the efficacy and the vitality of the underlying bill, not new legislation on a new purpose or new project or new activity. Nothing of the sort.
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