Gilbert Gutknecht: “I do not know if anybody read this morning's Washington Post, but there is a great story in there about a doctor who is…”

“I do not know if anybody read this morning's Washington Post, but there is a great story in there about a doctor who is paid $117,000 a year to sit in an office and see no patients. He is paid by the Federal Government, by the Federal taxpayers. It seems like every day if we study or look enough, we will find in newspapers, in the national magazines, the media and so forth are telling these stories about the waste of Federal spending. For people to come to this floor and say that we cannot find an additional 1.9 percent, well, I doubt if many people in this room really believe that. I know the people of America do not believe that. I believe that the chairman has operated in good faith. This is a good faith amendment. It is about keeping faith with our kids. After we passed the budget resolution conference report just a few weeks ago, the Appropriations Committee added $718 million to this bill. We are simply asking to reduce that expenditure by $230 million. That money can be found, it must be found, if we are to keep faith with our kids, if we are to keep faith with our word, if we are to keep faith with the promise that we made last year. This is an important amendment. It is supported by the Citizens for a Sound Economy, and I suspect many other organizations out there will be studying this vote. I hope Members will keep faith with what they said last year. Please support this amendment.”