Barney Frank said "I say to the gentleman, continue this trend of ever-increasing appropriations and authorizations for this agency, even when they have shown it is excessive by building up these surpluses, and you mandate deeper cuts in the environment and law enforcement and college education and public safety and everything else, because we are in a zero-sum situation. The $4 billion they accumulated without the knowledge of this committee is taken out of other important programs. We would be gravely mistaken if we did not try to recapture that for other purposes." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 22, 1996

I say to the gentleman, continue this trend of ever-increasing appropriations and authorizations for this agency, even when they have shown it is excessive by building up these surpluses, and you mandate deeper cuts in the environment and law enforcement and college education and public safety and everything else, because we are in a zero-sum situation. The $4 billion they accumulated without the knowledge of this committee is taken out of other important programs. We would be gravely mistaken if we did not try to recapture that for other purposes.

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Barney Frank

Democratic · Massachusetts

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of excessive appropriations on other important programs.

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