Jeff Flake: “Every once in a while you just have to stand back and say, hey, you have gone too far here, and studying dorm room walls…”

“Every once in a while you just have to stand back and say, hey, you have gone too far here, and studying dorm room walls to see if the paintings or the decorations on them say something about the health of the student or whatnot is just going too far. I can look back at college and I can tell my colleagues my dorm room walls were pretty bare. It said one thing about me, that I was broke, and that is what most students are worried about in college, just getting through. To tell them that they are paying taxes and some of their taxes are going to study what they have put on their dorm room walls, as to what that tells about them, is simply absurd. So I think every once in a while you have to step back and say we will have none of this; you have gone too far, the taxpayers deserve better. I thank the gentleman for bringing it forward, and I urge support for the amendment.”