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Many of our programs received funding of only 95 percent of current services. which took us to our limit on outlays. And the President requested that most of the departments take reductions in order to reduce the deficit. We did not approve all of the reductions and Border Patrol is one such case. Members will remember the President said we are going to reduce the executive department and we hope the Congress will do likewise. Well. we have taken reductions in most every agency. but in this case the reduction assigned to the agency was $14.754.000. and we put half of that back. $6.5 million of it. We could always use more Border Patrol personnel. and I am sympathetic to that. When we get to the Senate. we hope that they will have a little better allocation than we have on the House side. But we are up to the limit on outlays.