Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I certainly commend our distinguished chairman of the full Committee on Science for this action. What has happened here is that at our Committee on Science earlier this year as we did our work, the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Davis] actually offered an amendment that said, and it passed the Committee on Science, that if the appropriators actually appropriated a dollar figure higher than the authorization that we were setting in place there, that we could increase these funds at that time, and this accommodates that desire. As he knows, my friend from Pennsylvania, Mr. Doyle, and I were prepared to offer an amendment, which is at the desk which I do not believe is necessary at this time, which would actually accommodate this, and the chairman saw this need to increase this funding up to that appropriated level in 1996. I want to point out this keeps us within our budget caps, keeps us on the glide path to a balanced budget, something we can all agree must be done. I commend the chairman for this action and support his initiative.”