Barney Frank: “I would agree with him. The President's budget is inadequate. I hold no grief for the President's budget. I think the…”

“I would agree with him. The President's budget is inadequate. I hold no grief for the President's budget. I think the President has made a grave error. All I am saying is the gentleman has made bad worse. I do not care whose gimmick was what gimmick. I do not want to go to a bunch of 5-year-old children and tell them the reason they are living in squalor is not so much the 1997 budget did not give us enough money and we gave it to the space station, it is the President's gimmick. I do not care about either one of those. I am talking about inadequacy. And the failure of the President to adequately do the job is no justification for our failure also to adequately do the job.”