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to include in their appropriation bills sufficient amounts to complete the enter-
prise.
 Mr. BA&wKar. I do not contend that any allocation or the establishment of
any project by the President places any compulsion on Congress to finish
the project by the appropriation of additional funds. That is always within
the jurisdiction of Congress. We ourselves may authorize the expenditure of
$40,000,000 to build a dam across any river in the United States and then refuse
to complete it. Congress has that discretion within its jurisdiction. We may
appropriate $20,000,000 and deny the other $20,000,000 and let the unfinished
dam stand there throughout all eternity. There is no legal obligation on Con-
gress ever to complete anything it starts. It may stop at any time it sees fit
to do so.
 As I said awhile ago, I am not concerned with this project itself. I have no
 interest in it. I am sorry to say-and I say it with some humllitation-that
 the State of Florida is the only State in the American Union I have never been
 in. I have never even crossed it by any process of transportation, and that
 is my misfortune; so I have no personal interest whatever in this project or any
 other project in Florida. I contend, however, that when the President, acting
 under the authority of the act creating the $4,800,000,000 fund, established this
 project it was established by law and was authorized just as completely as if
 Congress itself had named that project in the act and had authorized him to
 allocate, out of the funds at his disposal, any amount up to the amount necessary
 to complete the project.-
 It is not possible, by raising a point of order, to make unlawful a thing which
 has been lawfully established. The point of order is one thing. The merits of
 this canal are another thing. Admitting the lawfulness of the project when it
 was established, admitting that it was established in pursuance of an authority
 passed on to the President by Congress, which nobody has questioned in any
 effective way, I do not believe it can be successfully contended here that tho
 status of that project can be changed now simply because it turns out that
 there is not enough money in the $4,000,000,000 appropriation to complete it.
 I have no doubt there are many projects which have been established and
 started under this $4,000,000,000 appropriation which may not be completed
 without additional funds. I have in mind one or two, not in my own State but
 in other States, that probably cannot be completed out of the $8,000,000,000. It
 may be possible that out of any additional appropriation we authorize for
 relief, the President may be able to allocate sufficient funds to complete these
 projects. I hope he may.
 Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, will the Senator yield at that point?
 Mr. BA Lzyr. Yes.
 Mr. CLAax. It has never been contended that if Congress appropriates addi-
 tional funds, the President may not allocate anything he pleases for the com-
 pletion of the project.
 Mr. BABKLrY. If Congress, by conferring a blanket authority on the President,
 has legalized this project in Florida, and if, by appropriating $2,000,000 or a mil-
 lion and a half, or $1,000,000. with blanket authority, the President himself can
 complete it, it certainly is within the power of Congress to authorize its comple-
 tion by a specific appropriation carried in the bill now under consideration.
 Mr. GLAss. Mr. President, will the Senator yield?
 Mr. BAs~rav. I yield to the Senator from Virginia.
 Mr. GLass. To show the uselessness of all this discussion, the President has
 the money, and may allocate a sufficient amount to complete the project even
 if Congress should turn down the proposed appropriation.
 Mr. BABrLXr. Of course, I do not know how much unallocated money the
 President has at his disposal. The same thing might be said of any other given
 project The President may have on hand enough unallocated money to com-
 plete some one particular project; but whether he has on hand enough unallo-
 cated money to complete all projects is subject to very great doubt.
 Mr. GLAss. Oh, yes In that act we apportioned $900,000,0000 for certain pur-
 poses, and then, in another item, $350,000,000 for other purposes, making a
 total of $1,250,000,000. The President has omitted to apportion enough for the
 completion of this canal. He has not usurped any authority at all He has
 just put up to Congress the question whether or not Congress desires to complete
 the project.
 Mr. BAmrLar. My contention is that Congress certainly has the power to do
 what the President himself could do under the authority of Congress.