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John Spratt: “What we do in this budget resolution really pushes the envelope of what we can accomplish in a budget resolution. We…”

On the recordJune 3, 1997
What we do in this budget resolution really pushes the envelope of what we can accomplish in a budget resolution. We have basically incorporated by reference a hard wrought, hard negotiated, bipartisan budget agreement of 1997, achieved over 3 to 4 months of negotiations, among the White House and the congressional leadership and particularly the principals on the Committee on the Budget. Even though this agreement goes to further lengths than we normally find in a budget resolution, it really does not contain all of the detail we need to see that it is carried out as the parties who negotiated it intended. That is why I say we are pushing the envelope of what we can accomplish with a budget resolution.
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John Spratt
South Carolina
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Discussing the passage of a bipartisan budget resolution in the House.

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