Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Colorado for holding this Special Order and talking about this very important subject. The reality is, as we are on that tank from ``Indiana Jones'' that is going off the cliff, we are busy fighting on top of it, but the tank is still going over the edge. One of the problem areas that we have is this payment of a half a trillion dollars a year--think about that--that we are giving to unauthorized programs. You can go to the Congressional Research Services and they will give you a full print out. You can get the full display of all of them and when those programs expired. One of the oldest ones--and I will just pull it up here. I have to scroll through all of these programs, these hundreds and thousands of programs. This is one where the Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction, Mr. Buck, and I mention that because Representative Buck and I both sit on judiciary. {time} 2110 It is the payment to the Legal Services Corporation. You know what that is. That is the public defender's office. The expiration of their authorization was in 1980, 42 years ago. What is the amount of money that they were last authorized to spend? Undefinite, an undefinite amount. There was no cap on it. That is what we have. We have everything from EPA, State Department, ATF. These are agencies and departments that haven't been authorized. Then we have a whole list of additional programs that have not been authorized, but we continue to fund them.…”