Political Quotes

“Just so we can clarify, so section 505 begins on line 4 on page 78, ``none of the funds.'' It ends on page 79 on line 3, but lines 1 through 3 say, ``approved by the Congress; unless the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance.'' So everything that precedes this says you can't use any of these funds unless you notify us ahead of time and we don't disapprove. This whole section, 505, if the gentleman would follow, is a requirement to prenotify, for instance in this instance, the Republican majority here in the House, that an administration official is planning to do something. Right? And what you do by taking this out would say if they planned on doing a private contract, they wouldn't have to tell you. They wouldn't have to notify Chairman Wolf or the committee or the staff and they could go ahead and act, and there is no way that you would know about it. So all I'm saying is that this language actually is a notice to our committee of administrative action as delineated on page 78. And so I just think that the purpose of your intent and what you are actually accomplishing are two different things.”