Budget Proposal to Arrive a Week Late, Congress Is Warned
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WASHINGTON — The Bush Administration said today it will miss by one week a Jan. 22 deadline for submitting a fiscal 1991 budget.
In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Budget Director Richard G. Darman apologized for the delay but said there is no way the Administration can make the deadline for its first full-year budget.
Darman said in a letter to House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) that the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.) had balked at the prospect of a week’s delay. “Unfortunately, however, we simply cannot deliver the budget by the 22nd of January,” Darman said.
“Budgets have, of course, been late many times before,” Darman said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.). “But I hope you may appreciate that I would have preferred to have been exactly on time, rather than seven days late.”
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