Daniel Inouye: “What I am saying, Madam President, is very clear. The thrust of my remarks is that the American people believe we are…”

“What I am saying, Madam President, is very clear. The thrust of my remarks is that the American people believe we are coming here to provide emergency supplemental appropriations which are an emergency situation in the State of California, which all of us agree with and support, at least to varying degrees. Instead, we find ourselves funding various specific projects, agencies, which are neither emergency in nature nor, in my view, required to be outside the normal authorization and appropriations process. Perhaps the members of the Appropriations Committee can describe to me why the $10 million to move Pennsylvania Station is so vital, and why we need pest management control additional spending when the 1994 appropriations bill already appropriated $434 million for the Department of Agriculture Extension Service, but we need to have an additional million or so because of a potato blight.”