T. Gorton: “the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Washington agree totally on the Byrne grant program. We agree as to its…”

“the Senator from Iowa and the Senator from Washington agree totally on the Byrne grant program. We agree as to its effectiveness on the war on drugs and with respect to interdisciplinary task forces. We agree on the DARE Program. What they do not agree on is how to pay for a program which the President most improvidently took out of his budget. The Senator from Iowa believes it ought to come out of national defense, and that is all he can do with this resolution, but he wishes to earmark it to come out of star wars. In that, he disagrees with his own Department of Defense, with his own President of the United States, and disagrees, of course, with the budget resolutions that came out of the Budget Committee. The Senator from Washington believes that our national defense is more important than new furnishings for bureaucrats, and believes the money ought to come out of those furnishings. It is as simple as that. We are going to restore money for Byrne grants, I am convinced of that. The question is whether or not we take it out of the defense of the United States or furniture allowances.”