Matt Salmon: “let me be as succinct as I possibly can. In a nutshell, all this amendment does is reduce within the administration and…”

“let me be as succinct as I possibly can. In a nutshell, all this amendment does is reduce within the administration and the Office of the White House the amount commensurate that we have already appropriated within the bill to compensate the seven people from the White House Travel Office that were, many of us believed, unlawfully terminated and vigorously pursued by the administration via the FBI. We already know the story. There is money in the bill to compensate these people. My proposal is simply that we get back to accountability and that the Office of the White House and the administration of the White House pay those moneys. Instead of appropriating new tax dollars to compensate those victims, that the money come out of already appropriated moneys and we get back to the concept of personal responsibility.”