Mark Neumann: “Mr. Chairman, it is a very serious issue we are debating here today. Really, this issue, and I have heard what other…”

“Mr. Chairman, it is a very serious issue we are debating here today. Really, this issue, and I have heard what other people are saying this is about, this is really about priorities in spending. The people have elected us to make decisions on what it is that is most important in this Nation for us to spend our money on. What we are being asked to decide here in this amendment today is, are we better off increasing an account, and remember, it is already at last year's level even if this amendment passes, are we better off increasing the amount of dollars spent on bureaucrats in Washington, DC, or would we be better off sending that money off to the States and letting that money get through to help children like the gentlewoman from Idaho's granddaughter and other kids like her all across this great Nation? That is what this debate is about. It is about priorities and where the tax dollars that are collected from the people get spent.”