Political Quotes

“if I read the lock box amendment right, I have a great concern about what they are trying to do. Much of the legislation we have passed initially is for negotiation purposes. We normally take projects out. We have taken as many as four destroyers out and over $1 billion normally in the subcommittee. But there are times when amendments have been offered on the floor and we have lost as much as $1 billion on the floor, but we go to the Senate and then we renegotiate the amount of money we have. As I understand the amendment, we would lose that money and we would lose the flexibility to negotiate with the Senate, or the other body; and they would have the same problem over there. So this really, I think, could be detrimental to good government rather than help government. It certainly would not help us because in the end we would be determining on the floor, we would be reducing the amount of money when really all people want to reduce is one particular system which later on may want to be increased again. This really worries me.”