Richard Swett said "The one thing we as New Democrats are going to have to do is, in a very constructive way, being about accountability in spending, and ensure that those cuts are going against either eliminating bad programs and being reinvested, as Rob Shapiro from the Progressive Policy Institute says, into programs that are going to bring about new growth and new opportunity, or that they will reduce the deficit, and hopefully eliminate the deficit and help us bring down the debt. The point the gentleman is making I think bears repeating, because my sense is until this body fully embraces this understanding, and allows for a program to be cut and that money not to immediately be spent on other existing programs that are not being looked at from an accountability perspective, we are going to continue to wreak havoc throughout the system." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 22, 1994

The one thing we as New Democrats are going to have to do is, in a very constructive way, being about accountability in spending, and ensure that those cuts are going against either eliminating bad programs and being reinvested, as Rob Shapiro from the Progressive Policy Institute says, into programs that are going to bring about new growth and new opportunity, or that they will reduce the deficit, and hopefully eliminate the deficit and help us bring down the debt. The point the gentleman is making I think bears repeating, because my sense is until this body fully embraces this understanding, and allows for a program to be cut and that money not to immediately be spent on other existing programs that are not being looked at from an accountability perspective, we are going to continue to wreak havoc throughout the system.

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Richard Swett

Democratic · New Hampshire

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing accountability in government spending and the need for program cuts during a floor debate.

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