[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[House]
[Pages 30005-30006]
[From the U.S. 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

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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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