Barney Frank: “if someone had said some of the most fiscally, self-proclaimed, conservative members of the House were going to come to…”

“if someone had said some of the most fiscally, self-proclaimed, conservative members of the House were going to come to the floor and ask us to spend $100 billion or $200 billion on a nonessential project, people would have said, when pigs fly. Well, that is this bill. Did you see who got up to speak? Everybody who has got a NASA facility. The pork is very much in this bill, but it is flying pork. So this is literally the occasion when pigs fly, at least in the nature of pork, when all of the representatives of the NASA places come up here. Now, I agree with the gentleman from New York and my friend from Cleveland.”