I support President Obama's efforts to save money in the space program. Frankly, when people tell me that we have got a serious debt crisis but they're willing to commit hundreds of billions of dollars to send a human being to Mars so he or she can be brought back--and the President is not, I think, correct on this--then I am also skeptical. Some of my friends in the Agricultural Committee and in the South who support sending $147 million of American tax dollars to the Brazilian cotton farmers to offset the subsidy given to American cotton farmers, I doubt their true depth of their commitment to cutting the budget.
Barney Frank: “I support President Obama's efforts to save money in the space program. Frankly, when people tell me that we have got a…”
On the recordJune 9, 2010
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The speaker discusses budget concerns and skepticism about spending priorities.
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