Joel Hefley: “I am really torn on this. There is nobody that has worked harder on this subject than the gentleman from Indiana (Mr.…”

“I am really torn on this. There is nobody that has worked harder on this subject than the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Buyer). The gentleman has struggled, he has negotiated with the Committee on Ways and Means, and unless you have negotiated with the Committee on Ways and Means you do not know what he has been through. He has worked diligently and hard and not only that, his heart is in this subject. He wants this problem solved, and he has come up with a plan to solve it. On the other hand, I have worked for so many years on this subvention program. I can remember years ago, and I say to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), I do not know if the gentleman remembers this or not, because we did not know each other well at that time, when we were before the committee and we were saying that we had made promises to these people that we were not keeping, and at that time the Pentagon was saying we did not really promise; that was overzealous recruiters that made those promises. And I say to the gentleman, remember, we waved in front of them recruiting brochures to show, back from the 1950s I think they were, to show that we had made those promises. We made promises and we need to keep those promises, and one way to do that was that we passed the subvention program, to give it a try. I sponsored that when it was not popular.”