Scott Walker: “The gentleman is perfectly willing to suggest that he knows laboratories that should not be affected by this because he…”

“The gentleman is perfectly willing to suggest that he knows laboratories that should not be affected by this because he regards them as stellar, but he is not going to engage in the tough decision then of where the cuts are going to be made, and the point is, I would say to the gentleman, that we have a lot of very good facilities all over the country. Now he made reference to the Galvin report. So does the Department of Energy. The Department of Energy is not following the Galvin report, neither is the gentleman. I mean everybody seems to take the Galvin report and do with it whatever they want. As my colleagues know, they find that this language and that language and decide that the Galvin report justifies anything they decide they want to do. The Galvin report is very clear with its recommendation. The Galvin report suggests the privatization scheme over a 10-year period by going to a private corporation that would run the labs for a period of time so that what we could do is ultimately sort out what the good ones and the bad ones were, and we would sort them out based upon the marketplace. The gentleman is taking a totally different approach. First of all, it is not 10 years, it is 5 years for his approach. Second, he does not allow the kind of process that the Galvin Commission recommended, and so to refer to the Galvin Commission report as being the basis for this amendment I just think is totally wrong based upon what the Galvin report did.”