Christopher Shays: “I would love to just say to the gentleman that I remember well in 1989 he offered an amendment to try to get a handle on…”

“I would love to just say to the gentleman that I remember well in 1989 he offered an amendment to try to get a handle on government spending and I think there were only 38 Members who supported him. Each year he kept offering amendments to slow the growth of the Federal Government, to not make these deficits so large, and each year he got more and more support. It was just a constant effort on his part. I remember him asking Mr. Greenspan at the hearing he chaired, he said, ``Mr. Greenspan, are you concerned that we will cut spending too much?'' He responded by saying, ``Mr. Chairman, I don't go to sleep at night fearful that when I wake up the next day that Congress will have cut too much.'' But you are not just talking about cutting, because what you are also talking about is growing this economy and to move it from the Federal Government to the State government which is so important.”