Jay Rockefeller: “It would be natural, in the nature of this body, for people to come and say--the Senator referred to this in her…”

“It would be natural, in the nature of this body, for people to come and say--the Senator referred to this in her remarks-- you are talking about making available $30 billion to the States; we have enough problems of our own at the Federal Government level. I pointed out in my remarks the recession we are in right now is more a matter, not of war that we are in, but the State situation and the Federal Government situation. So people would say just let the States go ahead and pay for this. If they have to make cuts, they have to make cuts. It is their fault they are in this kind of situation. I was wondering how the Senator would reply to that.”