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Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 2008

Floor Speech

Date: July 26, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending Criminal Justice

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008

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Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Madam Speaker, I concur with the suggestion that this motion to recommit be defeated.

As the author of the amendment yesterday to increase SCAAP funding by $55 million, I can certainly not be counted as someone who does not support funding for State and local alien incarceration programs.

On the other hand, we had offsets for our amendment yesterday, $55 million in offsets, and if I had found additional offsets that didn't adversely impact the Drug Enforcement Agency or the FBI or the COPS program or the National Science Foundation, I would have suggested an even bigger amount. I couldn't find those offsets.


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