[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 163 (Wednesday, November 17, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H12113]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    RHETORIC AND WASTE IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. President, come home and solve this final budget 
problem that we have here. We may again have an across-the-board 
reduction in spending to finally find the offsets to cover the 
additional spending the President wants to put forth. We need him to 
return from all of these foreign affairs trips he is taking.
  It is too bad I only have 1 minute here, because I could go on for 
hours about the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government. He 
claims we cannot reduce by one penny out of $1 waste, fraud and abuse.
  Here is an example. Mr. Speaker, $14.2 billion that was for low-
income tenants for privately owned apartments at the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development was kept in check and used in other 
Federal programs. In fact, $11 billion was used for additional spending 
in other programs that we did not even know where it went. This kind of 
management is simply outrageous.
  Mr. President, we need you to come home. We can find one penny's 
worth much waste fraud and abuse in every dollar we spend around here 
in Washington.

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