Haley Stevens: “There are no smoke and mirrors in the appropriations bills. We sometimes have devices in order to enable us to meet the…”

“There are no smoke and mirrors in the appropriations bills. We sometimes have devices in order to enable us to meet the objectives of the Budget Act, but we never end up by appropriating money to an account that is not controlled by the Federal Government, nor do we give up interest on that $3 billion for a year and expect just to get the straight $3 billion back. If there is something like that going on in an appropriations bill, I don't know about it. He is right, we have our devices for making sure that we have control on spending money, and sometimes that is subject to criticism, similar to what I have just given him.”