I said at the start of that speech, I said 1 year in Congress has confirmed what I suspected: with the exception of the military, with the exception of our good men and women who wear our uniform, with that exception, the rest of the Federal Government doesn't do anything well. And I asked the audience, tell me how the Department of Commerce improves your family's life. Tell me how the Department of Labor improves your small business. Tell me how the Federal Department of Education improves life in our schools. How does it really help our teachers, our school board members? Most importantly, how does it help our children in our schools across this country? And of course the answer was nobody knew. Nobody knew what all this big government does.
Jim Jordan: “I said at the start of that speech, I said 1 year in Congress has confirmed what I suspected: with the exception of the…”
On the recordDecember 18, 2007
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Discussing the inefficacy of federal government departments during a speech on spending.
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