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Lincoln Chafee: “What I am saying is these amounts are listed here as contract authority. I mean that is the word. And that means that…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1997
What I am saying is these amounts are listed here as contract authority. I mean that is the word. And that means that every single State will anticipate--they can work these percentages out. You don't have to be a Phi Beta Kappa to do that. And they will anticipate what they are getting. Indeed, proponents are already saying every State is going to get 25 percent more. They don't know they are going to get 25 percent more. That is what I mean. They are riding one horse saying you are going to get 25 percent more because there it is, ``in contract authority.'' At the same time they are saying we leave it completely up to the appropriators, it is not necessarily 25 percent. Which is it?
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
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Discussing contract authority and funding expectations for states.

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