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1	going to put it and this is how he takes care of the
2	egg growers and the potato throwers and the tomato people,
3	and all the other schmalz that come out, and Jenkins, who
4	can't get something, the regular budget comes in and he
5	gets a little bit from this and he is satisfied.
6	I don't know of any way. It is undesirable,
7	too, but I don't know of any way to inhibit a Governor from
B	amending his own budget. The same question came up in
9	Anne Arundel County the other day, while the budget was up,
10	In the last few minutes, the members of the County Council
11	had blackjacked the County Executive into agreeing that he
12	would amend his budget in order to put some things in it,
13	and the Solicitor called me because he didn't think this
14	was the right thing to do and he thought he ought to rule
15	against it, and I said, I just don't see how you can rule
16	against such a thing because it's his budget. It's part of
17	the budget that he has presented. He is agreeable to this
18	thing. Therefore, you night as well go ahead with it.
19	But, it's the same process that occurs at the State level.
20	THE CHAIRMAN: You may have answered this one
21	before, John, but how do you feel about the fact that you