[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 154 (Wednesday, October 29, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H9986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WASHINGTON WASTE WATCHERS

  (Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I once again want to 
talk a little about the Washington Waste Watchers and the work that a 
number of us are trying to do to root out waste in Washington. The 
examples are just one after another; but one that hit me, I think like 
a ton of bricks, was the $814,000 in salary and bonuses for a Head 
Start executive director in Kansas.
  Yet, Mr. Speaker, when we bring these up, our good friends on the 
Democratic side of the aisle have only one solution. What is their 
solution? Do they join us when the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget proposes to cut 1 percent in waste, fraud, and abuse? No, they 
propose increased taxes on the American people.
  When we see a $470,000 grant to study individuals, now, listen to 
this, drinking alcohol while watching pornography, do we get the 
Members of the other side of the aisle coming forward to say we want to 
help cut waste, fraud, and abuse? No, they propose to increase taxes on 
the American people. When we see, for example, the Impact Aid funds 
intending to go to schools in South Dakota that were instead used, some 
of them, to purchase real estate, to purchase a Lincoln Navigator and a 
Cadillac Escalade, do we get our friends on the Democratic side of the 
aisle to say we want to support you in cutting this waste? No, they 
propose increasing taxes, 25 times just this year alone.

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