Steve Chabot: “we face a lot of hard budget choices, but we have still got some pretty easy decisions to make as well, like ending the…”

“we face a lot of hard budget choices, but we have still got some pretty easy decisions to make as well, like ending the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEH. My amendment would do just that. Mr. Chairman, this amendment will save the taxpayers of this country nearly $100 million and that is why groups like the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and Americans for Tax Reform have all weighed in and strongly support this amendment. We will have to make some sacrifices, sacrifices like the Conversation Kit that the NEH has produced to teach folks how to talk to one another. It is true, the National Endowment for the Humanities spent $1.7 million to teach the American public how to talk to each other. They also, in that same kit, suggested that there are conversation starters from obscure movies like ``Casablanca'' that we ought to watch and then we all can talk about the movie, and they have spent tax dollars in order to educate the American public so we can all talk to each other. I think that is absurd.”