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Floyd Spence: “Mr. Chairman, we are in the process of negotiating a settlement of this matter. In the meantime, I would like to take…”

On the recordJune 10, 1999
Mr. Chairman, we are in the process of negotiating a settlement of this matter. In the meantime, I would like to take this additional time to explain what we have before us today. As I said a few moments ago, this budget that we have before us that we are considering is for the year 2000. There are no funds requested by the President for 2000 for Kosovo in this budget. We have recently, as my colleagues remember, passed a supplemental for Kosovo that took us up to the end of this fiscal year. You cannot do it for the next fiscal year. We have had over a number of years now similar provisions to this one in our defense authorization bills. These provisions simply say that if any contingencies arise which are unbudgeted for, that the President should come before the committee and ask for funding for that. In the year that we are in right now, this fiscal year, that is what happened.
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Floyd Spence
South Carolina
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Discussing the budget for Kosovo during a committee meeting.

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