Patricia Schroeder: “I think it is unfair to just say he asks for flatout money. He has offered offsets. I think we would want the record to…”

“I think it is unfair to just say he asks for flatout money. He has offered offsets. I think we would want the record to be clear on that. I think that many of these programs the gentleman is talking about are on the basis they have been block granted, for example the Drug-Free School Programs the gentleman is talking about. Those were block grants to the local communities for people to try and figure out how to spend the money in the best way to get the people's attention. So I find it a little disconcerting that on the one hand you say we should trust the local officials, but then when we do and they do something and say this works in our neighborhood, then people say they did the wrong thing. So I do not know. All I am saying is I do think it is very important to say there have been offsets, that I do not think this was just a PR war, and that this President has vetoed fewer bills than any President that has been here since I have been elected.”