Christopher Shays: “I just wanted to make reference to one area I had not spoken to, and that was the whole concept of the public's opinion…”

“I just wanted to make reference to one area I had not spoken to, and that was the whole concept of the public's opinion about this. Obviously it is very supportive. But it was documented in a piece that we received from Ross Perot last year from United We Stand. In March they did a survey, the first national referendum of government reform, and in it Ross Perot's organization, United We Stand, did this and asked a number of questions. They asked 17 questions to get the public's opinion about the budget and so on. One of the questions was, ``Do you believe that Congress should not exclude itself from legislation it passes for us and should correct this discrepancy immediately?'' Ninety-nine point four percent of the people said, ``Yes.'' Now, admittedly using the word ``discrepancy'' was a bias in his question. Ross Perot knew he was stating the question this way.…”