Political Quotes

“First I want to congratulate the committee for doing its work to help curb the rise in government spending. I rise to offer an amendment to provide level funding for NOAA's Climate Portal program, rather than the increase in the funding requested by the President and included in the bill as it currently stands. The Climate Portal program is actually a Web site run by NOAA; and in committee testimony, Dr. Lubchenko suggested that this was a science Web site. This is where you can share climate science information and make decisions. {time} 1640 Madam Chairman, the request is a 56 percent increase in funding. Now, the only thing that's gotten a 56 percent increase over the last 4 years is the size of the Federal deficit and the debt. So my amendment merely reduces the level of funding to the current level. But I want to read, as you click on some of these topics, what the science is at this port. I am going to read from an article just published on the Web site on May 2. It talks about farming. ``The rain was as loud as pennies falling on the roof of the truck's cab.'' Later on in the paragraph, ``We had been watching Johnson work in his field until the fat drops of rain sent us racing for cover.'' Next paragraph, ``The machine behind the tractor makes it easier than ever for him to roll the grass into submission, thousands of stalks pointing accusingly at the device that just pancaked them.'' Madam Chairman, that's not a scientific article.…”