On the recordMarch 11, 2004
I have to get this in the Record because I am afraid the college students might read this stuff or may have been listening. If they use some of the information they heard, they could fail economics class. I don't want that to happen. It has been very depressing listening this hour and 45 minutes. This is a 20-minute amendment. That is a long time on a 20-minute amendment. But it is the way this process works. It was 50 hours of time, equally divided, and each side can spend it however they want. We will probably yield ours back, portions of it, to be able to get to some final votes and get this completed. This has been depressing and wrong. The budget document is a few assumptions that we use. Granted, it is based on a pile of documents, probably 20 pounds worth of paper. There are all kinds of ways to work the assumptions, but when it comes down to it, we set up a few targets.
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