Tom Coburn: “I would make two points with the gentleman. Number one is if we really were wanting to attack those communities that…”

“I would make two points with the gentleman. Number one is if we really were wanting to attack those communities that were underfunded, I would have included the $1.7 billion that is there designed to do the statistical sampling. We did not do that. So I do not think it is fair to say that that is what we are targeting. It is also not fair to say that we do not want a census. What we are saying is we think it is not honest to the American public to declare something an emergency that is not and, number two, I would make the point that the $14.5 billion that is recommended to be on-budget surplus is made by cooking the books.”