Political Quotes

“I rise, too, in opposition to the Roemer amendment, which he is offering for the second time this year. I would say some good things about him, but the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hall) has already said those good things about him. The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Roemer) and I are occasionally on the same side of the same issue but never never over this issue of NASA. I want to say to the chairman of the subcommittee, I am new to the subcommittee, as of course the chairman knows, and I have gone to the subcommittee because I looked forward to working with the chairman, looked forward to working with my ranking member, the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan) here. I appreciate both their words today here in support of NASA. Of course, I am troubled by the overall NASA mark in this bill and hope that this is just the beginning of what we will have to go through and that we will eventually correct funding for NASA in general. Because I think, in general, a $1 billion cut is an unacceptable cut.”