Political Quotes

“let me explain simply what the gentlewoman's amendment does. The 1995 appropriations act out of our subcommittee included $265 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's internal laboratory research programs. That amount was $40 million over the fiscal 1994 figure, an 18 percent increase, and deservedly so, because these labs do a wonderful job. The committee rescission in this bill that is pending before us would rescind $19.5 million from that amount and reduce the 1995 figure to $245.5 million for fiscal 1995. That is still a 9.5 percent increase over the 1994 level, even after the rescission is taken. The NIST internal program will not lose money. They will just simply get as much of an increase as the 1995 bill had given them. They will still be able to employ more people, even with this rescission. The gentlewoman from Maryland has made a very powerful case to this gentleman and the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Mollohan], the ranking minority member on our subcommittee, of the importance of the NIST program over and again to us. I have to compliment the gentlewoman from Maryland [Mrs. Morella] for her tremendous persuasiveness about the effectiveness of NIST and its programs. She has convinced us that it would be wise to cut back on the rescission in a fairly modest way but a significant way.”