Political Quotes

“let us take the General Accounting Office. If we do follow the assumptions of the Senator from Texas that we do a 25-percent cut in addition to the 600 people we already cut from GAO, how much Government waste, fraud, and abuse will occur as a result of the General Accounting Office, our watchdog being unable to discover fraud, waste, and abuse within the Federal Government on all levels of Government? I am working with one of my colleagues to take a look at the Federal Reserve Board. The General Accounting Office is the only body equipped to do that. It is very difficult, very time consuming, and my colleague and I have a tremendous interest in this. If there is a 25-percent cut of the staff of GAO, that will never happen. What about the problems we have in the military of excessive contracting? We know the money that has been saved and people have gone to jail as a result of the work of the General Accounting Office. Mr. President, I would also talk about franked newsletters. In the U.S. Senate there are no franked newsletters. We do not have the money. In the U.S. Senate each Senator does not have enough money to mail one letter to each of his or her constituents. So I say how in the world could we send newsletters? We cannot. There is not enough money.”