The level and the substance of that bill does adhere to our calls for a conference report that limited its total amount to the Presidents request for true emergency spendingno fat. no excessive spending. Those criteria have been met. It focuses resources on important priorities. priorities such as funding border security. which we spent well over a month on this floor talking about. on conducting the war on terror. and aiding hurricane recoveryall while exercising tight fiscal restraint and responsibility. Also of note. the bill contains a fiscally prudent spending level for this years regular appropriations bills. This bill sets a discretionary spending level at the Presidents request of $873 billionanother very important point of maintaining fiscal discipline.
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