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Paul Ryan: “All we are proposing is this: if Members can come to the floor with amendments to eliminate or reduce wasteful spending…”

On the recordJune 24, 2004
All we are proposing is this: if Members can come to the floor with amendments to eliminate or reduce wasteful spending, they ought to be able to save that money. That is all we are proposing. So what we do here is when a cutting amendment comes to the floor to reduce spending, the entire 302(a) allocation, the entire discretionary allocation goes down by the amount of that amendment. So that at the end of the year, that money either goes to reducing the deficit or that money goes to reduce taxes.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing an amendment related to budget protection accounts and wasteful spending.

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