Sean Patrick Maloney: “Mr. Chairman, if I had been here, I would have risen reluctantly in opposition to the amendment offered by my friend…”

“Mr. Chairman, if I had been here, I would have risen reluctantly in opposition to the amendment offered by my friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown], and in support of a 10-percent, $13 million Federal funding for the National Center for Science, Literacy, Education, and Technology at the Museum of Natural History. It was a mere 10-percent funding of a $130 million project that would have expanded science and new technologies into the homes of millions of Americans through all types of fora, not only at the museum but through computers and through the Web. I regret that I was not here to speak in opposition to his amendment, and I am sorry that this has been struck from the budget.”