Mark Hatfield: “I wonder if the Senator was aware of the specifics that have been extrapolated, that increased in this particular new…”

“I wonder if the Senator was aware of the specifics that have been extrapolated, that increased in this particular new rescissions package: Adult job training, by $40 million; school to work, another $20 million; Goals 2000, by another $60 million; safe and drug free schools, $220 million; drug courts, $5 million; community schools, $10 million; TRIO, $11 million; child care block grant, $8 million; housing for people with AIDS, $15 million; national and community service, $105 million; safe drinking water, $225 million; community development financial institutions, $14 million; community development grants $39 million, for a total of an add-back of $772 million over the first rescissions package. That is after weeks of working with the White House, after working with our colleagues in the House of Representatives. Sure, the glass is half full or half empty, depending on what you look at. Again, there has not been a word said about the Senator from Minnesota or the Senator from Illinois that I would not endorse 100 percent. My views precisely. But let me also say to the Senator that he has talked about low-income energy assistance. No one has gone cold for a lack of money in that account. We do not predict the weather ahead. What we do in the appropriations is we set forth $1.3 billion in 1995 appropriations for low-income energy assistance for this coming winter. We cannot predict that winter.”