Edward M. Kennedy: “as we mentioned before, in terms of trying to encourage these different departures and new directions in stability and…”

“as we mentioned before, in terms of trying to encourage these different departures and new directions in stability and certainty in terms of the integrity of the program, obviously there will be a review of these programs. But, I would say, by and large, the overwhelming majority of the people involved in the programs say unless you have some degree of certainty, unless we know this program, if we do it right, whether it is 8 years or 5 years, has a defined period of time, then the chances of its successes are marginal. Second, you have the annual appropriations that review these programs year in and year out. I think, third, we have seen, both in terms of the work that our committee is going to be doing in the area of dislocated programs and other programs, that we are going to be working closely on these programs. And, quite frankly, we do, in some areas of public policy, not even have annual periods of time. We authorize virtually without limitation in terms of years. It is reasonable. We want accountability and review. But we want to balance that against a period of certainty and stability. I think the recommendations for the time were put in that kind of context.”