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On the recordMarch 10, 1994
Computer Applications, zero in the current year, zero requested by the President, $209 million in the next year and $150 million. Is this evidence of that courage that we were urged to take by those sterling declarations in connection with defeating the constitutional amendment? Am I missing something here?
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John Chafee
Rhode Island

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Questioning budget allocations during a discussion on constitutional amendments.

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