Political Quotes

“Many Members in this Chamber believe that this resolution covers all of the funding for committees when, in fact, that is not the case, not even close. Looking at the chart next to me, the total amount of funding for committees is not the $52 million that we will debate today but it is almost $130 million. Only 41 percent of the amount that is spent on committees is actually covered by the Committee Funding Resolution. That is referred to as investigative committee, where the majority controls some 80 percent of those investigative staffers while the minority controls roughly 20 percent of those staffers. So I bring to the attention of my colleagues that we have some problems, and I would like to point those out during the remainder of my time. The first is that I think it is time to change the funding process. If we are going to have a committee funding process, we ought to have all of the funds for all of the committees dealt with in this committee funding resolution, not just the 41 percent that we are going to debate today.”