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David Obey: “the gentleman is misstating my position. I said that in spite of my misgivings about the program, I decided not to cut…”

On the recordMay 25, 1994
the gentleman is misstating my position. I said that in spite of my misgivings about the program, I decided not to cut the program. I did not operate on the basis of the President's budget. We operated on the basis of last year's budget, because we did not have the money to go around providing large increases. Does the gentleman think it was a mistake that we provided an increase for IDA, 50 percent of that money goes into Africa? We decided that that had a greater effect than some of the other requests that the President made.
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David Obey
Wisconsin
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Discussing budget decisions and funding priorities during a House floor debate.

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