Jack Kingston: “I think the gentleman has raised a good point. I believe you could cut 1 percent and most people would not know the…”

“I think the gentleman has raised a good point. I believe you could cut 1 percent and most people would not know the difference. It is interesting that here is a quote I wanted to bring up, when asked why Democrats will not support finding a penny out of every Federal dollar in waste, fraud and abuse, even when the defense budget is $1.8 billion higher than the President requested, the House Democrat leader, Dick Gephardt, responded, ``They don't want 50,000 to 70,000 people to be let go at the Department of Defense.'' Well, here is the President, his own budget was $1.8 billion less, and now we are asking them to find 1 cent on the dollar, and the Democrats are claiming it is going to lay off 50,000 people. What was their budget going to do? It is just absurd. Only in this town can you have these kind of conversations. Out there in common sense America, you know, this would have been resolved in August, and we would be home by now.”