Political Quotes

“if I may respond, what the Secretary of the Interior has done is terminated the Office of Assistant Secretary of Territorial and Insular Affairs. In doing so, he is placing part of the responsibility to his Assistant Secretary for Budget and Planning. Within the Office of Budget and Planning, I am told that under the Deputy Assistant Secretary and further down the line there, he is going to establish an office which is called the director that is supposed to be keeping an eye, at least on behalf of the Secretary, on whatever is left to do with the territories. What we are trying to do here, if I might respond to the gentleman, the Secretary of Interior made an announcement based on our hearing that he was going to terminate the entire Office of Territorial Affairs. I assume that he is going to do it directly under the auspices of his office and assistants.”