Bob Kerrey: “As a consequence of the Domenici amendment, an offset is not needed. That is what my modification did, was to strike it.…”

“As a consequence of the Domenici amendment, an offset is not needed. That is what my modification did, was to strike it. His is a straightforward argument against this amendment. It can only be made on the basis the Senator from Texas used, that this is a program that Members do not want to fund and do not support. As I said, it has very strong support from a wide variety of community organizations that matched the Federal dollars, used the Federal dollars two to one. I think this program not only deserves to be supported, but has very strong support from the Republican leadership on the House side.”