Tom Schatz Projects Quotations

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills,

I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security.

Unfortunately disasters become an excuse for excessive spending. When it's within the region, people try to add these projects on.

They just realized that they just did not have the room within the budget. They needed close to $1 billion for various programs, and they just didn't have it without taking the projects out. But whether this is a trend or a one-year aberration remains to be seen.