Dale Bumpers: “This figure counts. It is $94 billion and soaring. We have finally reached the point where the General Accounting…”

“This figure counts. It is $94 billion and soaring. We have finally reached the point where the General Accounting Office, this morning, says that cost overruns have begun and show no sign of slackening. What does it take in this body to get somebody's attention? This is not our money. I hear all these lamentations on the floor of the Senate about the poor taxpayer out there and trying to send his children to school and trying to make car payments and make his house payment and how we are going to provide this magnificent $135 billion tax cut for the poor, suffering taxpayer, while, at the same time, adding $94 billion to his tax bill to build a space station from which we will get no benefit. If that were just Dale Bumpers talking, you need pay no attention. But it is every physical society of every nation who has a dime in it-- the Japanese Physical Society, the Canadian Physical Society, the European Physical Society, and the American Physical Society. That is virtually 99 percent of all the physicists in the world who oppose this thing and say we ought to be spending the money on legitimate medical research. You are not going to get a cure for warts out of the space station.”