Marshall Sanford: “It seems to me in the back and forth that the--a fairly central question that's emerged has been: Has the cut in funding…”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 40, line 21, strike ``in lieu of'' and insert ``or''. Page 41, line 1, strike ``in lieu of'' and…

I thank Chairman Shuster for agreeing to the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford). The amendment was agreed to…

I rise as a conservative in support of this measure. As conservatives, we want less government; but the government that we have, we want to work better. I think that WRDA does that. I think one of the things we look at is how do we become…

I will take that as a yes, that Milton Friedman was right, that ultimately an important measure toward making government more efficient is, in fact, making it smaller.