Richard K. Armey: “Nine significant agencies, including the Treasury Department which I will bet has in its employ a more than generous…”

“Nine significant agencies, including the Treasury Department which I will bet has in its employ a more than generous number of CPAs and they cannot be audited. So what happens, it seems, is that when people come to Washington, they cannot even do what they do do well. The CPAs malfunction at Treasury, the educators malfunction in the Department of Education. I want to make this point very quickly. Why are we being tough on the Department of Education? It is not that we dislike the Department of Education. It is certainly not that we dislike education. We would stand here and we would say there is no thing that any culture can do that can be more important than how we educate our children. And if we have an agency of the Federal Government that is committed to that purpose by an act of Congress, committed, then it is the responsibility of Congress to see that that agency functions for the children. And to find this kind of inefficiency, neglect, sloppy work, abuse, who pays for that? That all translates into the neglected children from an agency of this government that we created.”