CBO estimates that the 5year budget outlays will be anywhere from $100 million up to $2 billion for the agricultural credit program. That is a gigantic range of estimateswe have no idea what the taxpayer is signing up for with the agricultural provision in the bill now. It is a very serious problem. Because this provision on all agricultural loans. as well as the provision on immigration. authorizes direct spending. they are each subject to a Budget Act point of order. This creates yet another hurdle for this bill. President Yeltsin gave a stemwinding blockbuster of a speech. full of democracy and the kinds of freedom ringing phrases that were welcome tones in the Chamber of the House of Representatives.
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