David Thomas: “Members will be relieved to know that there will be others joining me during this 30 minutes, other Members from our…”

“Members will be relieved to know that there will be others joining me during this 30 minutes, other Members from our freshman group, to continue our discussion about the agenda for the Senate, the agenda for the Republicans, and of course the agenda for this country. We feel very strongly, of course, that this is a great opportunity to move forward on the issues that were the issues talked about and voted on by Americans in the 1994 November election. This is the greatest opportunity that we have had for a number of years to evaluate programs that have been in place, rather than continuing to simply put more money into programs when the results have not been what we expected. Now is an opportunity to take a look at the programs and see, in fact, if there can be changes made, to see if in fact, there are programs that do not need to be continued, that could better be done in the private sector, if there are consolidations that can be made so that we can do away with repetition and redundancy in programs. There is no question but that those exist. Mr. President, we are excited by the opportunity. There are 11 Members who are in our first year in the U.S. Senate and are very proud and pleased to be there.”