On the recordMarch 25, 2004
However, the Chairman's budget will result in a disproportionate amount of cuts from agriculture. Keep in mind that in order to keep agriculture at last year's spending level, the appropriators will have to cut $650 million out of the farm bill as they did in the fiscal year 2004 appropriation. If we assume that in the chairman's budget the discretionary cuts will be proportionately divided among the appropriation bills, then this number will rise another $1.6 billion. That is correct. That is the chairman's budget. And I want to ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to read their own budget, what they are being asked to support today and how it is going to affect rural districts in conservation, water issues, rural development, environmental issues, research, because this is real. And I commend the chairman because he honestly and sincerely is trying to do what his party has asked him to do. And it is real.
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