Political Quotes

“The intent of my amendment would remove at this time the authorization for new funds for this Commission which may now be the existing Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. That agency is already funded at approximately $1 million a year. Now, as the gentleman indicated and as I did refer to earlier, the Senate in their bill gave new duties. They adopted the Advisory Commission in place of a brandnew Commission. They then added new duties in the bill and provided an authorization, because they thought they had reached a point where some additional authorization was necessary even to an existing Commission. My amendment does not offer extensive new duties and, therefore, I do not offer any additional authorization. I think if the House adopts my amendment and adopts this bill, that would be a matter of conference between our two Houses as to whether we wanted to have sufficient additional duties and some additional authorization.”