Jack Kingston: “Mr. Chairman, I stand in support of the Chabot amendment, and here is why. As my colleagues know, we are kind of getting…”

“Mr. Chairman, I stand in support of the Chabot amendment, and here is why. As my colleagues know, we are kind of getting involved in what policy should be or, I guess, what is good and what makes sense and so forth. But we should remember that just because something is a good program does not mean that it should not be recognized and supported locally as a good program, as opposed to Washington has to do everything because if we do not do it, it means we do not love humanity or people or little children or sex and gender studies or some of the other valuable projects the NEH gets involved in. But just imagine this, Mr. Chairman: If a person were on a diet, if they were on a 6-month diet to lose 30 pounds, and they got to the fourth month and they had lost 28 pounds, would they stop dieting? As my colleagues know, this person is ahead of their time schedule, they had not reached their goal yet. Would they quit exercising and start eating ice cream again and say, ``Hey, look''? The situation that we are in right now is similar to that fiscally, Mr. Chairman. We have reduced the deficit greatly.…”