José E. Serrano: “in closing, I just want to, first of all, comment that I must have hit a nerve in telling the truth, because the…”

“in closing, I just want to, first of all, comment that I must have hit a nerve in telling the truth, because the gentleman from Georgia got so excited that he made some noise that I'm trying to figure out later what it means. Something, hee-haw or haw-hee or something. I'll try to figure it out later. But anyway, the point is that no one is lecturing anyone. The ones who've been doing lecturing, Mr. Chairman, have been people saying that these bills have to be cut. These bills are bare-bone bills. This one in particular came in under the President's request, cut the President's request by $245 million. We set out to help agencies to help people. We demand, we encourage them, actually, to come closer to the people. We do a lot to allow the District of Columbia to deal with some of its issues, something that Mr. Regula and I believe in strongly. That's what this bill does. But we still can't get away from the fact that when we deal with cuts, you could present it any way you want.…”