LIHEAP is unbelievably important, and we need to find a way to get the money out for LIHEAP. ... my hope is we can get that done. But having said all of that, again let me say we have a managers' package that perfects--after having negotiated now for several weeks on about five or six very controversial issues, we have negotiated in a way that we have reached a compromise on all of them, satisfactory to all of the parties.
Discussing the importance of the LIHEAP program and a managers' package during Senate floor debate.
Share
More from Byron Dorgan
Senator Byron Dorgan's 68-page Report of 2010 addressing the critical conditions of all the Great Plain's Regional IHS was brought to the attention of McSwain.
I think what Governor Engler indicated is the most important point, and that is the stability of funding for a project of this type is essential.
You know, I do not know that I can offer you much advice except to say we have painted ourselves into a fiscal policy corner.
Other voices in this conversation
