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Mr. Chair, I suspect that Representative Pfluger would be aghast at the claim that this is a legislative earmark. There is no money involved in this. By the way, the air quality has continued to improve. Since 1990, ozone concentration has…

Mr. Chair, this actually does reduce the spending. This is actually an amendment that does reduce spending. As far as the FRA is concerned, my goodness, just saying it meets FRA, well, FRA spends more than last year. Every year we spend…

Again, Mr. Chair, we are just spending dollars. This government agency, this program does it, and here is another one. The last, the Denali Commission, there were 29 separate programs. This is not much different. I didn't count them up…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 67, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $19,750,000)''. Page 81, line…