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On the recordMarch 11, 1997
What I am saying for great clarity, for the second allocation, supplemental funding, the Rules Committee exercised what I regard as its authority to restrict the use of those funds to the clause ``illegal'' for 1996.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the allocation of supplemental funding and the authority of the Rules Committee.

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