Porter Goss: “Mr. Chairman, Florida is a mega-donor State. I understand how the gentleman from West Virginia feels. We get picked on…”

“Mr. Chairman, Florida is a mega-donor State. I understand how the gentleman from West Virginia feels. We get picked on in Florida unmercifully and one of the reasons we argue so much for fair play for Florida is that we want to level the playing field. I am simply saying that you have had a very successful program, it has had great success in many ways, and it has, in fact, leveled the playing field in Appalachia to a large degree. Not all the problems are solved any more than the problems in Florida are solved and I am sorry to report that I could probably show the gentleman an impoverished area in my district, even though it does not show up on this county needs area, that is just as distressed as some of the places in Appalachia and probably just as distressed as some of them back in 1963 when this program had its genesis. Mr. Chairman, I feel that the interest here is fair play.”