Lindsey Graham: “Therefore, presenting the impression that the passage of this amendment would result in substantial additional cost to…”

“Therefore, presenting the impression that the passage of this amendment would result in substantial additional cost to the States-- touted to be $70 billion--is a patently untrue statement. I wanted to set the record straight before we went home so none of our colleagues spend August worrying that they might have been deceived into believing there was going to be a very major additional cost to the States and that might have influenced their vote on this matter. So my only purpose was to make those corrective comments and express my hope that in the future we would follow the spirit and custom of the Senate, which is when you distribute a document such as this, you put your name on it so someone is held accountable. And I suggest it would also be helpful if we adopted the custom that there be some source given for documents such as this, so those who are interested in pursuing the basis upon which the calculation was made would at least know whose telephone number to call.”