John Campbell: “Mr. Chairman, I too want to comment on some of the comments made by the Appropriations Committee chairman, the gentleman…”

“Mr. Chairman, I too want to comment on some of the comments made by the Appropriations Committee chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin. There are two things we are doing here. One was just very eloquently presented by the gentleman from Arizona. We are trying to say and trying to insist that when these projects, when these earmarks, when these sorts of things appear in these bills, that there is sunshine, that people know what they are, that they can see them and that they are subject to an up-and-down vote, rather than these big slush funds that appear in this bill and others as they are currently constructed. The other thing we are trying to do here is very simple, and that is saving the taxpayers $21 billion. There is $21 billion more that has been proposed to spend in the Democrats' appropriations bills than what the President proposed to spend. Now, I might add that I am one of the 160 people who voted for a budget to spend $20 billion less than the President has proposed.”