Jeff Duncan actually said...

"We may have to pass on some things because we can't afford it."

"As much as I would like to say let's set that land aside, let's buy this land, let's create a duck habitat... this overwhelming burden of our Nation's debt... overwhelms my desire to do that."

"I think we can do that."

"But we're in days of austerity. We're in days of austerity, and I would be more apt to support an option on purchase of that going forward, when times get not as lean as we are now."