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use -- who funds the capital budget by having a separate
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fund for borrowing purposes, you know, and good God, you
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get involved in the Constitution with actually natters .
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that should be statutory in character.
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MR. LAUBER: I'm not advocating -- I apologize
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to the Commissioner for taking this much time, but I am
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advocating establishing such a thing in the Constitution.
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I am advocating a constitutional provision which will
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authorize the legislature to establish it and, once it
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establishes it, freeze it tor three years before any change
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can be made and prevent.
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MR. DONAHO: I don't think you ought to authorize
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the legislature to have that authority, because at the Stat
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level you aren't faced with the rule as in the local, which
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is what is not estimated cannot be undertaken.
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MR. LAUBER: The chief provision is once it is
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established, it cannot be changed until three years after
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it has been enacted. That has to be constitutional.
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MR. DONAUO: Well, thinking in terras of these
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specific provisions of the Constitution, I think such
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things as requiring the budget message, allotment system,
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