Political Quotes

“The gentleman used the words ``starve the bureaucracy.'' As I look at the Washington bureaucracy, I do not think there is anybody starving. The President, in his message, also talked about that government was smaller, I forget by what percentage than when he came here. When we add back the million people who have been taken out of the military, our government bureaucracy has grown immensely under the administration of the present President. I am told there are departments that have doubled. I think EPA has doubled in numbers of employees. There are other departments that are 50 percent bigger. While we were cutting the military immensely, the rest of this government, as far as personnel is concerned, has exploded. There is a line item in the budget called general government. And I am going on memory here tonight because I have not looked it up recently, but if my memory is correct it was a $10 billion line item that in his budget was going to increase to 17 billion. It was general government. That is personnel. That is bureaucracy. So he was asking for a 42 percent increase in that line item in this year's budget. That is an area we need to take a look at it. I know I am personally having an audit done on how many employees there are in each department and how many there have been for the recent years. And if we want to waste money, build a huge bureaucracy. The Federal Government should not have these huge bureaucracies.”