Thomas Foley: “A greater tragedy was the other day in the Science Committee I saved $25 million on one project. I did not commit it to…”

“A greater tragedy was the other day in the Science Committee I saved $25 million on one project. I did not commit it to anything else. I said that money should be saved. The next day, a colleague on the other side of the aisle found that $25 million, fully committed it to another program. So after my efforts to save $25 million, they were all in vain. Today, you had that excellent amendment on the foreign operations budget. That money represents savings for the American public for the first time if we, in fact, have a lockbox, and Linda Smith can say to her constituents, 'I saved millions of dollars, and it is tucked away, no longer available for pork projects.'”