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1	figure and you can't reduce that.
2	MR. DONAHO: That's right, and no matter how
3	much good information you subsequently might find.
4	THE CHAIRMAN: Right.
5	DR. SENSENBAUGH: And it is also binding on the
6	Department of Education because we cannot pay one cent more
7	than the number of live children in the classroom for that
8	coming year.
9	THE CHAIRMAN: This is what the Constitution
10	protects. It is not this one year thing. What it protects
11	is the committees coming in and saying, look, this formula
12	is fine, but it is only as good as the inputs and the inputs
13	are all wrong and here are the correct inputs and, to make
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14	the correct inputs, you scale the thing down by several
15	million dollars-. This is what it protects.
16	MR. DONAHO: There is no sense in the Director
17	of Fiscal Research wasting his time to find out how many
18	pupils and reporting to the legislature. You can't do any-
19	thing about it.
20	DR. SENSENBAUGH: We have agreement in the
21	Budget Bureau.