Political Quotes

“But this amendment achieves many of the goals recited by Senator McCain, to crunch this down to a realistic purchase of equipment and not have the items which clearly were excessive in cost, as recited by our distinguished colleague from Arizona. I credit the distinguished Senator from Arizona. He is a constant watchdog on these various issues. And I responded to one of his points here. This is not taxpayers' dollars. Secondly, the reason we are pursuing this type of an arrangement is simply because there are insufficient taxpayers' dollars in the Treasury for the Government to build the building. And therefore, we have to work on this building lease type of financing to lower the burden of cost, indeed, to the taxpayers for the construction of a building which is absolutely essential. This vital function of Government, patent and trademark, is now being performed by very loyal, highly skilled Government workers. And they are disbursed in a number of buildings--a number of buildings. And anyone who understands the simple basis of management and trying to do a job knows that if you have your employees, first, in 16 different buildings--I want to repeat that; 16 different buildings--this concept is to bring it into a central concept financed under a lease arrangement, not by taxpayers' dollars, but by the payment of fees. So I say to my colleagues, this is a matter which both sides of the aisle have addressed in terms of cost containment.”