Richard Shelby actually said...

But we are all taking a chainsaw to our budget right now to a certain extent because of our failure to act.

I am concerned that replacing formula-funded programs with so-called competitive programs will result in the redirection of critical Federal...

That is $1 billion here and $8 billion there, and it is real money?

If we do not do this, where are the jobs going to come from in the future?