Lloyd Bentsen: “The question though is this: The Members on the floor of the House would be voting to cut a specific program that they…”

“The question though is this: The Members on the floor of the House would be voting to cut a specific program that they think is going in a lockbox, and the members of the other body would be voting to cut a specific program. But then the members of the Committee on Appropriations could actually go back and fund that program, but we would get credited. I know it would come to a great shock to everybody that that might happen, that the members of the committee and conference might not follow the will of the House or the other body, but it seems like we are sort of giving a blanket approach to a lockbox, just stick whatever program on there nobody likes, and then we will do that, and then we will cut it and take it out of somewhere else.”