Gerald Ford: “Let me say you are here because you want to know where I stand on the issues.”

I understand what the majority leader is saying, what he is trying to do. But if he continued to push these amendments over to a piece of legislation at a later time, then you are going to have all these amendments that are waiting, and…

I do not think anything is wrong with asking these local school districts that want this authority to rise up to the occasion and to be able to live up to these standards today. I would close by merely saying to all my colleagues in the…

You are already doing that. You are in the tobacco industry. You are attacking the tobacco industry, and it is all about tobacco.

I will add that I am a little disturbed and concerned about three issues...there is an enormous gap between what we said we want to spend and what we actually intend to spend.