Political Quotes

“The final point I would make is the following: A little more than 3 years ago we passed an amendment that I offered that forced the Government Accountability Office--the government's accounting office--and the Comptroller General to identify every program in the Federal Government, and not only to identify it but to outline where we have duplications and overlaps. And they have done a wonderful job. We are going to get the last third of that report about a month from today, April 1, but what do we know so far? We know we have about $370 billion in the first two-thirds of this where they say there is massive duplication. There is $370 billion worth of expenditures a year. I have talked with the President, and he disagrees with me on this, but when you think about it, we have 47 separate job training programs, of which all but three overlap. They are highly ineffective in total. So why don't we have two or three? We spend almost $19 billion on those programs. We could spend $9 billion, cut it down to three programs, put metrics on it, and make sure it is working. The reason I know it is not working is I looked at every job training program in my own State, and the ones that are most successful are the ones that are totally State run without any Federal Government interference.…”