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Mark Warner: “If that be the case, I should like to alert colleagues that we would have to look at all the programs, the full scope…”

On the recordJune 27, 2002
If that be the case, I should like to alert colleagues that we would have to look at all the programs, the full scope and full range of all programs in our bill to generate that $500 million. The consequences would be that in some areas there would have to be reductions in those measures which Senators thus far have believed were secure as a part of this bill. Would I not be correct?
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing budget implications and potential program reductions in a legislative bill.

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