John Spratt: “I yield 15 seconds to myself. Mr. Speaker, the numbers that the…”

On the recordApril 28, 2005

I yield 15 seconds to myself. Mr. Speaker, the numbers that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Edwards) was citing come from a document that we have prepared that compares the conference report with the Congressional Budget Office's current services baseline. And by that comparison, this conference report falls $13.504 billion below current services over the next 5 years. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson), the ranking Democrat on the Committee on Agriculture.

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