Political Quotes

“That is right. That is why there is a tremendous opportunity to increase spending or to increase the effectiveness of our current spending without spending any more money. The issue here for so many of our programs, I want to give you one example, you will love this one. Today we had a hearing on the labor department, a program called trend setters. Remember that word. This is trend setters. This was where the labor department was trying to identify apparel companies that were meeting certain criteria and these types of things. We questioned whether the labor department actually had the authority to put together this type of trend setter list. Well, to be a trend setter or to make sure that the labor department was a trend setter in how they communicated this information to the public, they created a web page. All right. So they are on the net. They stopped the program, they said, because of some criticism. They stopped the program in March of 1997. The program went dormant 1997. We had a copy of their web page from March of 1998, and we ran off their web page this morning. This is a program that was dormant. So supposedly they had done no work from March of 1997 until today. They had done nothing to update or modify this list. Now, I was looking at the list. There was the web page from March of 1998, a year after they stopped the program, to September, and the list of trend setting companies had changed.”