Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this is not, this amendment does not remove the Federal Government from its proper role of oversight for the activities of private organizations. What this amendment does is it says we will not pay for the transactions that a private organization has to incur on a day-to-day business to fulfill its proper role to run its business. This is corporate welfare, corporate welfare at its worst, because when the Federal Government in 1996 did reach out and say, ``We are going to help you and we're going to pay for your day-to-day operations,'' people within the Teamsters said, ``Thank you very much,'' and they took this $20 million and they used it for illegal purposes, not to build their union, not to strengthen their organization, but to begin to destroy it and destroy the confidence at all levels and destroy the public perception of this organization. Mr. Chairman, this organization has the funds to run its day-to-day operations. The taxpayers should not once again be asked to foot the bill and to run the day-to-day operations.”