Political Quotes

“this chart depicts the spending of the legislative branch appropriations bill in fiscal year 1999, and it reveals the instructions that I would intend in my motion for fiscal year 2000. As Members can see, the Senate vote for 1999, the Senate appropriation was $524 million. The House was $776. The joint other category, which as we know covers such things as buildings and grounds and the Library of Congress, comes to $1 billion and 50 million. The grand total is $2,350. On June 10 this body adopted a bill that allocates basically the exact same level for the House, $777 million. It voted for a slight increase in the joint other category of $1,085,000,000. The Senate in its bill voted for a $554 million, which is about a 5.7 increase, and 11.24 for the joint other category. What my motion simply does is it asks our conferees to reflect the will of the House. That means that the House number would be reflected, or the House number for both the House itself and for the funding of the joint and other categories would be the House numbers, and the Senate would stick with its own number. That would leave the total funding for the bill at $2,416 million. That would be a 2.8 percent increase over fiscal year 1999, and would be approximately $62 million lower than the new 302(b) appropriation allocation, if it were fully funded.”