Bob Schaffer: “I would submit and I know my colleague would agree that it all relates. It is all the same from a taxpayer's…”

“I would submit and I know my colleague would agree that it all relates. It is all the same from a taxpayer's perspective. Back home in Ft. Collins, Colorado or Pierce, South Dakota or Holland, Michigan they are sending their money to Government. That is all they know. They are not saying an education tax, an agriculture tax, a defense tax. They are just paying taxes, almost half their income; and they expect that somebody here in Washington is going to object for the $20 million mural in the Department of Education. Because what every American knows is that they prefer to have that money spent on their children and schools. So whether it is waste in the one department or any of the nine agencies that cannot even tell us how they spend their money because they fail their audits and do not do it well, from a taxpayer's perspective, they know what real priorities are in America: defending the country, educating our children, keeping the roads in operable condition, and things of that sort that are real priorities for the country. I think we owe it to taxpayers. As Republicans, I think taxpayers rely on us to expose this kind of waste, fraud and abuse whether it is in the Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, or whether it is the million-dollar outhouses that the U.S. Park Service built out in some national park. All of these things should not go unnoticed.…”