Charles Taylor: “I commend all these young Members and all the people who have been working for a balanced budget, as well as reserve…”

“I commend all these young Members and all the people who have been working for a balanced budget, as well as reserve funds for social security and the efforts we have made. In fact, if the legislative branch, and I owe this to my predecessors, because the last two chairmen have reduced the legislative branch substantially. We are not even back up to where we were in 1993 and 1994, even with inflation. I hope we can stay below that. I also point out that we are substantially below the caps that were given to us. We are going to report a bill that is substantially below the caps. I am not sure any other committee will be doing that. Mr. Speaker, I would say to all of us in the body that if they have a $1.8 trillion corporation, they are not going to talk about not having adequate staff and qualified staff to carry out the funding and the appropriations of that $1.8 trillion appropriations. If one does, then one is pennywise and pound foolish because one has to have adequate people and pay them adequately, especially in today's market, to carry out that task.”