Martin Sabo: “the reality is that if one is trying to achieve a certain deficit target or trying to balance a budget within a…”

“the reality is that if one is trying to achieve a certain deficit target or trying to balance a budget within a specified period of time and one spends more on something, you have to spend less on something else. Those are the simple facts. I like highways. Appropriate expenditures on highways are an important investment in this country. Appropriate expenditures on airports are an important investment in this country. Appropriate expenditures on transit are an important expenditure and investment in this country. But we have to make those judgments in relationship to the other choices we have to make. I also happen to think that money spent on research and development is important, that investment in education is important, that investment in our housing supply and housing availability in this country is important. All of those are going to suffer if this proposal passes today, and the assumption is that somehow billions of new dollars appear to be expended. Those others inevitably have to suffer, because those are the choices we have to make every year in Congress.”