James T. Callahan: “the gentleman brought up the subject I wanted to discuss and that was the news accounts last night where I saw the…”

“the gentleman brought up the subject I wanted to discuss and that was the news accounts last night where I saw the President criticizing the majority for wanting to spend too much money. I have been in on some of the negotiations. The gentleman from Florida has been in all of them. In every instance that I have been involved in we have been trying to hold down the growth in spending; and the President's representatives ought to go see the President and see what he was talking about, because the representatives he has negotiating these appropriation bills with us are insisting that we spend more money, that we increase the size of government. Yet the President very clearly last night on the news account indicated that we were trying to hold him hostage so we could spend more money. I am glad the gentleman from Florida clarified that, because I was confused. I thought maybe I had fallen asleep in some of those meetings.”