Political Quotes

“Under your language, it is the sense of the Congress that the Federal agency should do something to ensure something, and I want to give the Senator a hypothetical. Assume that the estimate of the CBO was that the metal detector would cost $50 million. But the way the agency reads our law requiring them to get these new metal detectors installed to protect the American people, it turns out that those metal detectors required by our law will cost $75 million. Should the agency ensure the $50 million in that event, even though they read our law to require metal detectors which as it turns out a couple years down the road will cost $75 million? Or is it your sense that they should go with the cheaper $50 million metal detector, which will not do the job, because that was the CBO estimate? Or is it the Senators intention that they comply with our law because the better metal detector will be better?”