[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                           TRUTH IN BUDGETING

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. I make the following announcement in the interest of truth 
in budgeting. Yesterday, a Republican Member of the House from 
California spoke on this floor about the need for a fat-free crime bill 
and was critical of the crime bill as being ``a porked-up bill.''
  I checked with a request filed with the Committee on Appropriations 
and discovered that that same Member has requested over 748 million 
dollars' worth of unbudgeted items in just one appropriations bill.
  His request included $20.8 million for San Diego State University; 
another item for $10 million; another item for $200 million; another 
item for $85 million.
  In another bill he also requested $3.5 million for the sweet potato 
white fly program.
  I would simply suggest that more of these reports may be in order due 
to the requirement to provide for truth in budgeting. I would urge 
those who express concern for pork to remember that lean bacon begins 
at home.

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