Political Quotes

“it does not take them off budget, and the fundamental issue here is that these should be taken off budget. This gets to the heart of the question. Indeed these are user fees paid in there. They should be taken off budget. But I would be quick to emphasize that limits should be set on what can be spent, and those limits are what should be set by the authorizers and by the appropriators, and in fact for the past year we have been saying we want to sit down with the appropriators and the budgeteers in order to negotiate a compromise on this kind of an issue, but unfortunately they were never willing to sit down and negotiate with us. So now to come at the last minute with a proposal I think, while I would not want to say it lacks good faith, although others have said that, nevertheless I think that this should be defeated and we should set these limits through the normal process of the authorizing and appropriating committees.”