House Proceeding 07-23-09 on Jul 23rd, 2009 :: 2:27:00 to 2:28:30
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John W. Olver: i think this is a good amendment. we should start forward by saying that we can hold the line here and keep the spending under control. i urge my colleagues to support this, and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves his time. for what purpose doethe gentleman from massachusetts rise? mr. olver: i rise in opposition to the amendment.

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Speech By: John W. Olver

2:27:18 to 2:27:38( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: the chair: the gentleman is recognized mr. olver: i thank the gentleman for his amendment. the gentleman's amendnt is actually slash and burn sort of squared essentially because it puts the whole pressure of the reduction. it's not as large a dollar reduction but it's all focused

2:27:39 to 2:27:59( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: deliberately and directly upon discretionary expenditure. and, of course, when the gentleman points out that he's strongly in favor of a lot of the programs here, i'm sure that there are few of those programs that are discretionary programs. perhaps not all of them, though

2:28:00 to 2:28:22( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: i suspect that there are a fair number of programs that he's -- that he doesn't particularly like that are mandatory programs as well. large cut in the budget that is

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John W. Olver: oposed by taking 25% out of the discretionary programs, and the arguments would only be repetious.