José E. Serrano: “But this is, again, the same thing. It is yet another cut, another desire to say we should have gone deeper in our cuts.…”

“But this is, again, the same thing. It is yet another cut, another desire to say we should have gone deeper in our cuts. When I think of this, I wonder, if we should have come to where the President wanted. The President wanted $243 million more. We decided in a proper way to come below the request of President Bush. Maybe we should have come at President Bush's level, and then you would be cutting his request more and more, rather than what I bring you today. But, again, this is a devastating cut. There is no other word for it. You are going after a bill that is a bare-bones bill. There is no fat in here. Mr. Regula, who worked on this with us, knows there is no fat in here. The cuts just pile up, and I understand what you are doing. With that, I just hope that everybody will vote against this amendment.”