Bernie Sanders: “It seems to me to be rather incredible that at a time when we spend huge amounts of time right here on the floor of the…”

“It seems to me to be rather incredible that at a time when we spend huge amounts of time right here on the floor of the House debating the appropriation for the National Council for the Humanities and the National Council for the Arts, and $100 million here and $100 million there, that this institution presumably which represents the American people has not been able to debate and vote on a $20 billion-plus package which puts taxpayers' money at risk. Maybe people agree with what the President and Mr. Gingrich are doing, maybe they do not. But I cannot believe that many Americans think it proper that the U.S. Congress does not debate that issue and vote it up or vote it down right here on the floor of the House. As the gentleman from Mississippi indicated, I have introduced H.R. 867. What H.R. 867 does is it says that the world has changed markedly since 1934 when the legislation that the President authorized was first enacted.”