Dale Bumpers: “I had a question. I wanted the Senator to give me a full and complete answer according to his beliefs. Let me make one…”

“I had a question. I wanted the Senator to give me a full and complete answer according to his beliefs. Let me make one other observation. The other day, the Appropriations Subcommittee on HUD-VA very graciously invited me over to question Dan Goldin, who is, as the Senator knows, the Administrator of NASA. And, as the Senator knows, I am opposed to the space station. I know the Senator is strongly in favor of the space station. But I asked Mr. Goldin about the $6.8 billion overrun that has just been announced. It has not been built. It is not deployed and operating. It is a 43-percent cost overrun. I said, 'Mr. Goldin, is there any threshold beyond which you would not be willing to go to build the space station?' He said he had not thought about it. If somebody asked me desperately, 'We want jobs in Arkansas'--and as much as I want to do something about the delta area of my State, there is a threshold beyond which I would not be willing to cross. That would be to sell citizenship to a bunch of takers and not givers.”