Political Quotes

“mentioning courthouses was a mistake. It does not fund courthouses. It mentioned the personnel that use courthouses. That is what I intended to try to say. Another section of the appropriations bill deals with money for public defenders and the Legal Services Corporation. It is not in the bill. We can deal with that on another day, and we can debate that all day long. The problem here is, we do not have enough money, as it is, to fund the existing Federal law enforcement agencies that I think we all want to fund, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, the war on drugs and all of that. I want to try, if we run short there, to have access to the Crime Trust Fund in case it is not all used up under its State prison construction uses. And that is the reason I would like to have this amendment as it is. I asked for more, frankly. We have to wait 2 years under this amendment for this unallocated money to show it. I would like to have had it this year, because we are going to run short this year, for the Federal law enforcement agencies. And this is the only reason that I wanted to have that kind of an access to this unallocated money.”