Andrea Joy Campbell: “That is what we are about here in Massachusetts. And frankly that`s what Democrats are about -- not political stunts but…”

As identified during the last amendment, we have debt, we have deficit, we need to look for things in the Department of Defense as well where we can look for efficiencies and expense reductions and still defend the country. Currently in…

I appreciate my colleague's comments; and, frankly, I don't disagree that it is arbitrary. I would argue that perhaps how we got to this 800,000 was not by anybody doing a great deal of planning either, so perhaps that is arbitrary. But…

We own these mistakes.

I’m smiling because folks will just file bills and say, ‘Who’s going to enforce it?’ ‘The AG, of course,’ and we’re never asked, we’re never engaged.