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Attorney General's opinion, but you put out the fire as
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quickly as you can and you always remember this thing
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having happened, and I just went over,in the last couple
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of days, all of Paul Hammond's Attorney General's opinions
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on the budget and the sanctity of the executive budget whic
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I think he held up and protected on almost every occasion,
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in every one of his opinions, particularly on Article 52.
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1 guess at that time, oh, possibly fifteen
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different attempts were made to get opinions loosening up
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Section 52, but none of them have ever prevailed under the
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Attorney General's opinion, and you have access to all of
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this through your research people.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Well, now, Jim, let's start with
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the premise that the executive control type budget is the
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desirable thing and let's trace it through. As I under-
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stand it, the executive, through your department, makes up
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the budget, that is to say, your office holds hearings with
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all of the State agencies. Your budget analysts go through
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their records and so on and so forth, and you come up with
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a figure which in your judgment is something to be sub-
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mitted to the Governor. The Governor —
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