William Helms: “I certainly appreciate it. I would have been here earlier but we had a meeting on China in the Foreign Relations…”

“I certainly appreciate it. I would have been here earlier but we had a meeting on China in the Foreign Relations Committee. I couldn't leave. The witnesses were long-winded, as well as some others. But I compliment the distinguished Senator from Missouri. I have been in the same position that he has been in for several years. It is pretty lonely. But the people all across this country will admire the Senator from Missouri for it, and the Senator will hear from them-- people who believe in high principles and morality. I just want the Senator to know that he is not being overlooked. I want a few minutes this afternoon to reflect upon an Associated Press report published Tuesday morning quoting NEA spokeswoman Cherie Simon as claiming that ``legislative restrictions'' and ``internal reforms'' have solved the NEA problem and that the NEA ``didn't fund some of the programs as Helms condemned''. Mr. President, isn't it interesting? You have a little lady --and I know she is a nice lady because she is somebody's daughter, but I never heard of her--make this statement, which is not true in the first place, that the NEA is not furnishing taxpayers' money for a whole plethora of rotten material. No other word will fit. This dissembling has been going on, but every year they come up, and say, ``Oh, no. Not us. We just fund nice things.'' It is sort of like the farmer who heard some noise in his chicken house.…”