Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Ross. The Government Accountability Office in a report this year revealed 16 of 23 major Federal agencies cannot produce a simple audit. In other words, they cannot tell the American people and the Congress what they did with the money that was appropriated to them for the purposes provided in the bill. Now, it is unbelievable to imagine that going on in your business. If you went to your comptroller and said here is an expenditure of $10,000, what happened to it, and the guy said I do not know, I cannot put my finger on that, nobody, no business person in this country would tolerate that, nor should they. Yet 16 of 23 Federal agencies cannot do that. In our plan, in this plan, if they cannot, we do it very simple: They do not get the money next year. It is straightforward, it is common- sensical. People understand it. And, by gosh, when the Congress appropriates money to the administration, whatever administration it may be, and they cannot tell us what they did with it, then they ought not to get it next year. I will tell you one other thing. Not only do we withhold money under our plan, which makes perfectly good sense, but there ought to be some accountability. What we have seen is I think a derivative of the gerrymandered districts that come here in this party allegiance first and the country second. We now have a one-party government here in Washington. The Republicans have the White House, Senate and House. The people elected them.…”