Gilbert Gutknecht: “one of my favorite Rodney Dangerfield routines is when he comes home one night and his wife is packing, and he asked…”

“one of my favorite Rodney Dangerfield routines is when he comes home one night and his wife is packing, and he asked her, ``Are you leaving?'' She said, ``Yes.'' He looked at her and said, ``Is there another man?'' She said, ``There must be.'' When you look at the system we have today, and I have listened to the debate so far, people are in a sense saying the system is broken, but we cannot fix it. The system is broken, and if you look at the way the system works, it guarantees that we will overspend. Now, earlier today I went through the numbers, and I have done this several times, what we passed in our budget resolution and what we ended up spending. And a lot of people are walking around saying, gee, I do not know how that happened. Well, here is how it happens. Here is the dirty little secret. What happens is, we over here in the House might low-ball certain things and high-ball other things, and the folks over in the Senate will low-ball certain things and high-ball other things, and what we wind up doing with a lot of these things, and we all know this happens, is we go to conference at one level and the Senate is at another level and we end up compromising at another level beyond the other 2, and the reason is we are all working off different blueprints.”