House Proceeding 04-05-06 on Apr 5th, 2006 :: 1:21:59 to 1:25:29
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Speech By: Gil Gutknecht

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Gil Gutknecht: what should be our concerns? where should we be looking for ways to achieve a savings? and over the past several months, actually, over the past three years we've come to the floor regularly to

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Collin C. Peterson: talk about waste, fraud and abuse and find ways and point out ways and to continue to seek ways that we can achieve a savings for the american people. and from time to time over the past

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Speech By: Collin C. Peterson

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Collin C. Peterson: few years we've talked about lots of different reports. many different reports from different government agencies from the general accounting office, from some of our friends who are in the media that have

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Collin C. Peterson: pointed out programs that maybe have outlived their usefulness, programs that cannot achieve a clean did. some of our colleagues, we have worked on ways we can investigate and highlight and look

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Collin C. Peterson: at what this drain is on our tax dollars. we have house committees, certainly the government operations, government reform committee that continue to hold hearings. oversight and investigations

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Collin C. Peterson: from our energy and commerce committee are certainly looking at ways to achieve savings and find ways to review how our agencies are spending their money. we have clear data showing places where

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Collin C. Peterson: the federal government is bleeding funds. and the president's budget this year has included more than 100 programs that could and should be targeted, mr. speaker. so the target for spending

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Collin C. Peterson: reductions is clearly enormous. we've got 100 programs, 100 that we can look at. through so many different agencies and so many different spots in the federal government. now, certainly out

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Collin C. Peterson: of 100 programs we're going to be able to find a way to achieve a savings. one of the interesting things is no matter what part of this country that you're in and no matter whose district you

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Collin C. Peterson: are in, a democrat or a republican, there is consensus among the american people that we have a problem. government does not have a revenue problem. government has a spending problem. government

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Collin C. Peterson: does not have a revenue problem. government has a priority problem. it is time began to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be. the taxpayers pay far too much of

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Collin C. Peterson: their paycheck in taxes. they're tired of every time somebody comes up with a good idea, they say, let's just go raise the taxes. and, mr. speaker, i'll tell you what, if it were not for the

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Collin C. Peterson: leadership in this house, we would see those taxes going up. if our friends across the aisle had their way, they would be raising taxes, not cutting programs. that is not where we want to go.

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Collin C. Peterson: we know it is tough to eliminate waste. i often quote ronald reagan who i -- he's pretty close to my favorite president ever, i'll have to say that, but he is one of the things -- one of my favorite

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remarks he ever made was that when you look at federal programs there is nothing so close to eternal life on earth as a federal government program. when you get the thing, it is just the dickens