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Charles W. Stenholm: “That is the point that we are making tonight and we have been trying to make, is that things did change. Therefore, we…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2002
That is the point that we are making tonight and we have been trying to make, is that things did change. Therefore, we do not necessarily believe that the budget that was put in place last year before 9-11 should be arbitrarily sent forward without adjusting not only for the expenditures, but also for the fact that we are going borrowing the Social Security trust funds in order to meet current operating expenses. We would welcome the opportunity to work together with the other side in the same spirit that the gentleman began his remarks tonight. Things have changed; and, therefore, we believe that we need to change our economic game plan to bring us back into balance, and we look forward to working with the gentleman.
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Discussing the need to adjust the budget in light of changes after September 11, 2001.

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