Timothy Roemer: “I offer this amendment in the spirit of bipartisanship on behalf of the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Ganske], the gentleman…”

“I offer this amendment in the spirit of bipartisanship on behalf of the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Ganske], the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Minge], and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann]. This is a bipartisan amendment to try to save the administration some money. My amendment, the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Ganske], this bipartisan amendment simply says that NASA can no longer spend $15 million to send to Russia to send monkeys up into space. Many people sitting in their living rooms might be turning their volume up right now and saying, we do what? We send hard-earned taxpayers' dollars from NASA to Russia, when they should be using rubles to send monkeys up into space? Mr. Chairman, I do not think we should be doing that as we work toward a balanced budget, as we make tough spending cuts here in America. This Bion program, as it is called, sends monkeys up into space of 14 days at a time.”