Senate Proceeding on Jul 16th, 2008 :: 8:01:48 to 8:03:07
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Speech By: Richard Lugar

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Richard Lugar: a reasonable argument and my amendment does not preclude the reasonablena ramping up of thef money. but what we're hoping to do here is to keep the appropriation to $50 billion -- actually, it's now $48

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Joseph Biden: billion. under current law, at $15 billion authorized, wish he spending just underer $20 billion. in other wor ds, the appropriations have exceeded the authorization. all i'm trying to do is d not prevent

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Speech By: Joseph Biden

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Joseph Biden: thet internal adjustment to allow the full expenditure of the amount authorized but to prevent an appropriation above that. th that's why the pointat of order would only apply to appropriations that

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Joseph Biden: exceensd the he authorized amount this the final year. mr. biden: mr. president, i want the senator to have the last word so i ask he have another 15 seconds to respond. this is an authorization,

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Joseph Biden: not an appropriation. i understand the senator's concern. but we may need to, in terms of rationally ramping up the expenditures of this money without wasting the $48 billion, be spending $11 billion

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Joseph Biden: or $12 billion in the fifth year. his concern is that becomes a baseline for the next five years. we're not authorizing for the next five years.rs we're authorizing for this five years and only

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Joseph Biden: authorizing. i urge us to vote against this amendment. but i -- the presiding officer: the g senator from arizona has 15 seconds. mr. kyl: i appreciate the hard work both the chairman and ranking

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member have been put in. i ask my colleagues to just improve this bill a little bit by adopting our amendment. thank you. a senator: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient