Frank Lautenberg: “I never said it was not a worthwhile event. I said that things have changed. The Senator asked me for an answer. I am…”

“I never said it was not a worthwhile event. I said that things have changed. The Senator asked me for an answer. I am going to give it to him. Things change. People expect different things from us. We used to have free gyms, we used to have free doctors, we used to have free this and free that. Why did we vote to change them? Because the public expects more of their public servants than to be out on a ski trip or a golf trip or a tennis trip. What they expect is that if we are going to do our business, it is going to be done primarily here. And when we go some place like that, I submit to you, pay for it and go and show how serious you are about the Primary Children's Hospital.”