Political Quotes

“we would think that, from the debate from the other side, that we were shutting down the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As I have said before, we give the EEOC the same amount of money in this bill as they have this year. They are making great progress on working off their backlog. I see no reason why that will not continue with the funding that is provided in this bill. So they have adequate funding, while we cut practically every other agency in this bill. Ask the State Department, ask the Commerce Department, ask every agency, practically, within both of those organizations, that have been cut. They did not get requested funding, they were slashed in order for us to find money to keep agencies like the EEOC operating at uncut levels. So the EEOC has adequate funding. We made sure of that in this bill. No, they did not get an increase, but hardly anyone else did. But we think the money is adequate to satisfy the demand placed upon the EEOC so people will get reasonably adequate coverage. Mr. Chairman, where does the money come from if the amendment passes? Again, let me emphasize, they would take money from the Bureau of Prisons salaries and expenses account. That would keep us from possibly opening the five brand new prisons that are ready to open in 1997. They would sit there empty, gleaming behemoths, empty of the prisoners that are crowded in other prisons in this country.”