Political Quotes

“The amendment that I bring forward zeroes out the Open World Leadership Center. This is a subset of the Library of Congress. This is an agency that's received millions of dollars over the years-- in fact, $123 million over the past 10 years--to bring foreign government leaders from countries like Russia and others to the United States, something that might be a good idea but, frankly, when you consider the fact that we're running massive deficits, have a mountain of debt that keeps building up, we have to cut back programs that we just can't afford to do. And clearly, this is one of those programs. I do applaud the chairman and the committee for reducing this account. Although it's been reduced, there's still a million dollars remaining in the account. Ultimately, what we do is completely eliminate that funding. The reason that we're doing this, if you go back--and we've looked at the Congressional Record over the years, going back to 2009--Congress has been very clear to this agency, the Open World Leadership Center, that it's time for them to stop receiving government money. {time} 1010 Just look at the comments from April 21 of 2010. At the time, Chairman Wasserman Schultz said: Our subcommittee's stated goal has been that we would begin to wean you off your reliance on Legislative Branch funding, so it is somewhat difficult for me to understand why you have asked for $2 million more in funding. This is an agency, Mr.…”