Virginia Foxx: “I think that Republicans feel very, very strongly about what the President has said, that we must spend taxpayers'…”

“I think that Republicans feel very, very strongly about what the President has said, that we must spend taxpayers' dollars wisely or not at all. I have asked the pages to put these charts up here again, and we will do it right at the end of this hour once more, so that we can make sure people know that there is a place they can write, there is a place they can call to report abuse, fraud and inefficiency, and that we will look into those. I think Republicans are very much committed to this principle. But, unfortunately, we are having to overcome an attitude that has been in existence for a long time in this country relative to the spending of Federal dollars. The other day in a meeting of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, I was struck by a comment that one of my Democratic colleagues made. He said that we were not spending enough money on counseling for people who were out of work in New York City and that he wanted us to spend $750 million more on a program. He called that a paltry sum of money. Paltry means a very, very small amount. Insignificant.”