Political Quotes

“I would just respond that no one is questioning the integrity of the people from the territories. No one is trying to make this an argument between citizens of this country and citizens of the States versus the citizens of the territories. That is not the issue. Nor is it the issue that we are trying to eliminate funding from this bill going to the territories. Let me remind the Members, under title I the territories are authorized for up to $70 million. Under chapter 2, they are authorized for $4.35 million. Under the Eisenhower program, they are authorized up to $4 million. What we are talking about here is $5 million for another new program to take the place of two old programs that the President wanted eliminated. Mr. Chairman, we did this shell game earlier in the bill, where the President wanted to get rid of the follow through program, so we initiated another program, gave it a new title, but it is in fact the same program. What we are doing here is, we are going to supply $5 million, if this issue stays in the bill, the same amount of money that they had authorized before, to the territories under a new name. The fact is, $5 million, it is enough. It is just time to say, ``No, we are not going to dissect this bill into a million more pieces. This is one piece that we are going to try to keep out of the bill and keep some focus to what we are trying to accomplish in this reauthorization."”