Jeff Flake: “Let me just go on. That is $508 million we set aside as a down payment on the supplemental, the war supplement coming…”

“Let me just go on. That is $508 million we set aside as a down payment on the supplemental, the war supplement coming up. We are simply taking from that, and that will be money that will not be spent in the supplemental later on or should be designated for the supplemental later on, but we have designated it saying it is emergency when there is really no difference between the categories here. I would submit that if you really want to fund, as we are adding here $16.5 million for a rotary wing hangar in Qatar, then perhaps you ought to cut out $2 million for a child care center which is funded here in the bill that is not being challenged here in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, or you could take out $9.8 million for an educational center complex in Little Rock, Arkansas, if you truly need to spend money, as we say we do, for Predator various facilities at Indian Springs, Nevada. Now let me just give one more example: $9.7 million for an indoor wash rack in Washington. Perhaps you could take money from that and spend it, if we really do need it, on $3.1 million for shoot houses in Korea. What I am saying is there ought to be integrity in the budget process. We did pass a budget. The ink is not even dry and here we are using a means to evade it, to actually get some head room up here so we can spend money on other priorities and earmarks.…”