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“On agreeing to the Perry amendment (A012) Failed by recorded vote: 120 - 302 (Roll no. 235).”
This amendment tried to cut roughly $2.06 million from the Great Lakes Authority, a regional economic development agency. The money saved would have been moved into a general fund used to reduce overall federal spending.
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An amendment numbered 31 printed in House Report 119-232 to reduce funding for the Great Lakes Authority and transfer to the SRA.
“On agreeing to the Perry amendment (A012) Failed by recorded vote: 120 - 302 (Roll no. 235).”
This amendment tried to cut roughly $2.06 million from the Great Lakes Authority, a regional economic development agency. The money saved would have been moved into a general fund used to reduce overall federal spending.
This amendment represents an attempt to prioritize national debt reduction over regional economic development projects in the Great Lakes area.
Residents of the Great Lakes region would have been the most directly affected if the funding for local development projects had been reduced.