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this provision is pretty meaningless now.
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MR. DONAHO: This is tha annual time in which
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the legislature has the chance to review all of its
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programs and say this is how much we want to spend on them.
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This gets back to Lauber's point on including the amount of
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the appropriation in a substantive bill, which is generally
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frowned upon because they don't get a chance to look at
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the entire dollar requirement at one time, and the Feds,
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you can't put — you can put an authorization amount in
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the substantive bill, but you can't put an appropriation
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in a substantive bill. You merely put an authorization in
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there. When they decide — I can take you to the Corps of
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Engineers and show you all kinds of projects dating back
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to 1920, which they laughed at and with great glee, the
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President signed the bill saying, they will never get a
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nickel of that one, and they never have.
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When the legislature meets, it seems to me they
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have an authority then and an inherent authority, as a
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matter of fact, to review the school budget requirements
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and say, I don't think we ought to give them this much.
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THE CHAIRMAN: But then the law says they shall.
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