On the recordJuly 27, 2000
I find it interesting that a party which professes to be so concerned with budget stringency will ask us to bring a bill to the floor before we even know by how much it exceeds the budget under which we are supposed to operate. My understanding is that the Legislative Subcommittee portion of this conference report exceeds the budget by $47 million, and that the Treasury-Post Office bill exceeds the allocation by $1.2 billion; and then there is also an additional $6 billion question mark because of the shifting of pay dates for SSI and for veterans' checks, which I think makes a real hash of any claim that there is any kind of budget discipline at all left around here. Secondly, I would simply like to observe, as my friend, Archie the Cockroach, has often observed, that this bill looks like an accident that started out to happen to somebody else.
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