Dan Burton: “I find myself in a very difficult position because I support most of what has been said by the opponents of this…”

“I find myself in a very difficult position because I support most of what has been said by the opponents of this amendment. I believe we have cut defense too far. I believe we need to make sure we have adequate military preparedness. But once again, this is not the vehicle for that. In addition to that, if the President wants additional money for these operations around the world, all he has to do is to ask us and send up a supplemental appropriation. I am sure it would get to the floor in a short period of time and we would be able to debate each and every one of these operations. As I said before, some of the operations I think are absolutely essential, and we should be funding them. Others I think are a waste of taxpayers' money. But when we lump them all together, we take it or leave it, and as a result we waste money. I submit, bring another bill back here that splits it out so that we can look at each one of these operations and cut out the waste. If we do that I will support most of it. Support the Burton-Frank amendment.”