Political Quotes

“This amendment strikes $186.3 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities. I will say, yet again, since people in Washington don't seem to care, we are over $33 trillion in debt. We are going to add another $3 trillion here in about less than 2 years. Let's take a look at the types of projects we are funding through the NEH grants: $60,000 to study the labor of interpreters in U.N. field missions; $500,000 to renovate 5,800 square feet of gallery space in the Adirondack Museum to meet ``contemporary museum standards''; Over $330,000 for compact cabinetry and fixtures for a museum in Richmond, Virginia; Almost $150,000 to build a comics and social justice curriculum at San Diego State University. I have a kinship with San Diego. I have been to Richmond; I like it. I am sure the gallery in the Adirondacks and the museum there are very nice, but these are State and local projects. This is not a Federal requirement. The gentleman from Idaho talked about the small towns and communities I am sure he represents and hopes that the arts and the humanities are there. I hope for the same thing in the little town that I come from, Dillsburg, a rural community that just held the farmers fair, where children, including my daughters, entered their arts stuff to be judged. There was no Federal grant to my kids or any kids in Dillsburg, York, Hershey, Upper Dauphin, or Carlisle.…”