Timothy Roemer: “Mr. Chairman, it is written in the Bible that without vision the people shall perish. Certainly vision in our great…”

“Mr. Chairman, it is written in the Bible that without vision the people shall perish. Certainly vision in our great society means technology and science. It means that bright, shining star in space that is our Space Station. But vision also means justice. Justice for all of the people in this great country. Vision means hope and dreams for the great people called Americans in the United States. And in this bill which these two gentlemen have worked so hard to craft, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan), we need even more justice and hopes and dreams for veterans that are not getting sufficient health care in this country, and risked their lives for this country overseas. For children, for children being raised in some of our public housing that is despicable, that is rat-infested. Yet we will go $5 billion over budget without blinking an eye for 3.5 people in space. Where is the vision and the justice and the fairness in that kind of allocation of resources?”