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David Obey: Despite the fact that our majority party friends have taken $12 billion of education money and slipped it one day over…

On the recordOctober 28, 1999
Despite the fact that our majority party friends have taken $12 billion of education money and slipped it one day over into the next fiscal year so they could hide it in this year, despite the fact that they have taken almost $4 billion at the National Institutes of Health and squeezed that spending just over the line into the next fiscal year, it will still be spent, still come out of Social Security, just next year's Social Security money, despite the fact that they have simply ordered the accountants to not count $13 billion in spending that they do at the Department of Defense, despite all of that, we have a letter from the Congressional Budget Office this morning that indicates that you are still spending $17 billion worth of Social Security this year. Now, get off the baloney, get back to the facts and let us resolve our differences in an honest way.
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David Obey
Wisconsin

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Addressing budgetary concerns related to education and Social Security funding.

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