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Merrill Cook: I think some of our other colleagues are saying if we are going to spend this 18 billion this year we ought to find…

On the recordDecember 1, 1997
I think some of our other colleagues are saying if we are going to spend this 18 billion this year we ought to find offsets, but the worst case scenario would be that in the next 3 or 4 weeks we do an 80 billion to 90 billion spending increase, a spending bill.
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Merrill Cook
Utah
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Dec 1, 1997

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