Speech #1090055471

Those are threats we can handle with more dollars. Those are the threats we can have an immediate Impact on with more dollars--with a lot more dollars. This bill moves a lot more dollars into these accountsover $600 million in the Border Patrol. and hundreds of millions in weapons of mass destruction Issues. But to simply throw another billion dollars on the table because there is a political element behind the implications of doing that is not going to resolve the problem. In fact. in the end. that will probably aggravate the issue because we will be taking scarce resourceswhich we have to allocate because we live under a philosophy that we only have so many funds--and putting them into an account where we cannot. A. use it. or. B. if we use it. it might be wasted. and if we use it ineffectively. its impact might be at the margin versus if you move the funds into areas where we get a response that produces results. such as in the Intelligence area. Border Patrol area. weapons of mass destruction area. That is why this bill has been set up the way it has been set up. So. yes.