Scott Klug: “let me follow up on what my colleagues have said, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss] and the gentleman from Wisconsin…”

“let me follow up on what my colleagues have said, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss] and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner], about a provision in this bill the three of us find very objectionable. Mr. Speaker, last year a number of us worked very hard to terminate the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Project and eventually we won a vote in this House and, in fact, defeated a conference report when we discovered, much to our dismay, that, during the conference, the Senate and the House appropriators had again miraculously saved that project. Mr. Speaker, in the bill we have before us, again there is a provision to give each full-time employee that lost their job at the ASRM plant a payment of $5,000, and that is 175 workers who would receive a total of just a little bit less than $900,000. Now, keep in mind that these employees are not Federal employees. They never were Government workers. They were hired by contractors and should not be receiving direct payments from the Federal Government. This is really a classic example of almost triple dipping.”