Alan Grayson: “I would simply submit that we cannot expect more for less. If we are…”

On the recordJune 11, 2014

I would simply submit that we cannot expect more for less. If we are going to be reducing the budget for food inspection in this country, we will have less food inspections, we will have more disease, we will have more hospitalizations, and we will have more deaths. That is not something that I want on my conscience. God help us all if such a thing happens, but I want to know that I did everything I could to avoid that from happening. It is fundamentally silly and wrong to think that we can cut the budget and somehow expect people to do more for less. I yield back the balance of my time.

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Alan Grayson

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Jun 11, 2014

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