Political Quotes

“We have to get away from these scare tactics that everything is going to be cut. I have had people come into my office and say, ``We are going to lose our programs. Everything is going to be out because you will not tell us how you are going to do it.'' Let me tell you, this is going to make us all set up a criteria to select those things to be funded that should be funded. How many programs have we got right now that are being funded that have not been authorized by this body or the other body or ever signed into law by the President of the United States? If that is one of those criteria, then we are going to see those folks who want to fund programs that have not been authorized or cannot pass the scrutiny of the Senate or the House and we get them out. A case in point is the National Biological Survey. We appropriate all kinds of money for a program that has never passed this Congress. And if we do not have the criteria on which we fund and what we do not fund, we will never do it, we will never get it under control. So the scare tactics are all baloney.”