Hal Rogers: “Here the gentleman goes again. He is attempting to cut without specifying where the cuts come from. There's no tough…”

“Here the gentleman goes again. He is attempting to cut without specifying where the cuts come from. There's no tough choices identified in the amendment. All it says is just to reduce the appropriations by $280 million, exempting DOD and Postal Service. But across-the-board cuts is a way for us to escape responsibility for making choices that people elected us to do, and this amendment does not specify where the cuts come from or who is to make the cuts. I guess he would leave it up to the bureaucrats to decide where to cut, but that's what we were elected to do, Mr. Chairman, and so I oppose the amendment. I sympathize with the desire to cut more spending, but I want it done in a judicious and specific way. I reserve the balance of my time.”