John Conyers: “I appreciate the dilemma that the gentleman has described. There is perhaps one other solution. Perhaps the Permanent…”

“I appreciate the dilemma that the gentleman has described. There is perhaps one other solution. Perhaps the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence would determine, and the leadership as well, to accept the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] as a member of the committee, and that way he would be privy to the information that has been pointed out by the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss] as necessary to effect a specific solution. Because right now there is not only no way that the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] can be specific to those seven excellent questions, but neither can any other Member in the House of Representatives who is not on the committee. I cannot come down here and say, 'Well, the National Reconnaissance Office is up by $1 billion, I want to cut $500 million there because they are spending it on this particular satellite that I do not think is helpful.' I can do none of that on the floor. I could not talk about the amount of money here if I had been up there to review the budget.”