Trade Representative. Small Business Administration. would all be cut. The Border Patrol is an agency that has been doubled in the last 5 years. We have the GAO report which shows the actual figure is an increase of 97 percent in the last 5 years. The fact is. last year when the administration asked for a $16 million increase for the Border Patrol. we gave them $20 million. This year they asked for no increase and we gave them $5 million more. I studied and Senator RUDMAN studied closely that GAO report. There was some complaint we heard that while they got increased funding. the Department of Justice was not allowing the moneys to go forth to the particular border patrol. The fact is we reprogrammed $7.6 million in 1987. in 1988 another $12.1 million. in 1989. another $14.4 million. So in that period of time. here in the last few years. we have reprogrammed an additional $26.5 million to the border patrol. I hope we would not cut these other programs for an agency that has been studied and closely monitored. been doubled over the 5year period. on the one hand. and provided all this reprogramming. on the other hand. I retain the remainder of my time.
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