On the recordFebruary 10, 1994
I hope the Senate will not support that amendment by Mr. Durenberger. It is an attempt to set up a procedure whereby the executive branch would reserve in the disaster relief fund an amount they determine would be necessary to fund the average annual amount expended for disaster relief during the preceding 5 years. The problem with this approach is that it would supersede the present process for handling emergencies that was negotiated after lengthy discussions during the 1990 budget summit and is incorporated in the budget of 1990. In so doing, the pending amendment would take away from discretionary spending the amount that would be reserved in this newly established trust fund. This would mean that we would have literally billions of dollars less to spend on discretionary spending, including defense, over the coming years if this amendment were agreed to.
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