Mark Takano: “Just in response, the pay-for to which the gentleman from Tennessee is referring is under mandatory spending, which…”

“Just in response, the pay-for to which the gentleman from Tennessee is referring is under mandatory spending, which would not actually pay for the program. It would be returned to the Treasury, and the discretionary funds simply--there is no pay-for out of the discretionary funds. It is coming out of the mandatory side. It is a very illusory device. So I want to reiterate that each time this pilot program was reauthorized under the majority, never was there a demand on their part that there be a pay-for. Madam Chair, I have no further speakers. I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.”