Sam Brownback: “I want to recognize what the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler] has been doing. Here is a businessman coming into…”

“I want to recognize what the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler] has been doing. Here is a businessman coming into the Congress. Normally, people would say, well, this would be the type of person that would defend the Department of Commerce, help the Department of Commerce because it is going to deliver goodies back to him or to his organization or people that he knows. Instead, he is going in saying, ``Why do we have this Department of Commerce the way it is currently configured and can we not save money and help the American people and help the American taxpayer in the process?'' I think that is a very worthy goal and objective and something that the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Chrysler] has really put forward. Mr. Speaker, the other night I was really attracted to very supportive to very supportive of the President's statement in the State of the Union where he said at the outset, ``The era of big Government is over.'' ... I anticipated that shortly thereafter in the speech, the State of the Union, that he would call for the elimination of the Department of Commerce as an indication that the era of big government is over and here is something we can do without and we can save $7 billion in doing this, $7 billion.”