[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25445]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      ISSUE IS NOT HOW MUCH MONEY

  (Mr. STENHOLM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, the issue is not how much money. The 
majority voted last week to increase the caps to $645 billion in 
spending. That is $13 billion more than the President requested. The 
Blue Dog Democrats suggested a compromise of $633 billion a long time 
ago. The majority refused to talk to us.
  I hope we will stop talking about money. Money is no longer the 
issue. Because if we exceed $645 billion cap for 2001, there will be 
sequestration and we will bring all the spending back to $645 billion, 
which is what the majority has set for the caps, which is way too much 
spending.
  So I hope we will stop this misdirected rhetoric tonight. Because 
that sign there ``how much is enough?'' has no relevance whatsoever to 
any of the issues that we are talking about because we all agree now 
that $645 billion is the cap.

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