Joe Cunningham: “I myself am not sure it is that bad of an amendment. Let me tell you what some of my heartburn might be, if I understand…”

“I myself am not sure it is that bad of an amendment. Let me tell you what some of my heartburn might be, if I understand it right. In education or law enforcement, one of the problems we have is too much paperwork. I know when I was in the service, during the war, all our paperwork went in the trash barrel. We went out on the carrier level and did what we had to do, and we were able to be much more effective. After the war back in the squadrons at the bases, I spent 80 percent of my time filling out Federal reports on what we should be doing and what we should not, and I was not able to do the things I really needed to do to train the unit. This Member's idea is I do not want the Federal Government, the bureaucracy back here, to have to receive reports. I want the State and local, I want us to have goals and let the State and local establish in their own particular area what they need to do and what those standards should be. What might be good for Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin might not be good for Pete Wilson in California.”