John Kerry: “Senator Bradley, Senator Feingold, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Bumpers, and I and others join together in offering an…”

“Senator Bradley, Senator Feingold, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Bumpers, and I and others join together in offering an amendment, a rescission amendment, that cuts $43 billion over 5 years; $3 billion this year. We are looking for a way to fund what we are about to spend. We offer that. But more importantly, what we have offered to the Senate is an opportunity to register our votes for real choices, for a set of choices that reflect what the American people would really like to be spending their money on as opposed to being forced to spend it by the continuation of programs that the President has asked to have cut; that the National Academy of Sciences boards have said are worthless; that most of the evaluations say are wasteful. There are nine programs in our amendment that the President has specifically asked us to cut and that he proposes in his budget be cut.”