Short clip (2 minutes), includes transcript. Solid points from Hatch.
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CNSNews.com: “Is there a federal agency that you think should be closed?”
Sen. Hatch: “Give me a chance. I’ll show you a number of them that I think we could do without. I’m not saying that there isn’t some good in all of them. Yeah, we could do without a number of federal agencies and, or at least federal programs all over the country, and if we narrowed it down to the ones that really work, the ones that really benefit our American citizens, it would be a heck of a lot less than we have today.”
CNSNews.com: “Senator (Judd) Gregg (R-N.H.) said that the Commerce Department would be a good place to start because they should be – he just said that would be an agency that could be cut to ultimately balance the budget or a least contribute to it.”
Sen. Hatch: “Which one’s that now?”
CNSNews.com: “The Commerce Department.”
Sen. Hatch: “Well, there are a number of Departments that we could seriously strip down and there are some departments that are costing us an arm and a leg for no good reason and it’s pure politics, pure liberal politics, to just build the federal government at the cost of everything else and get federal control here. There are things the federal government can do better – national security, intelligence, there are a number of things that the federal government is geared to do better on -- but not everything and they’re trying to get it into every one of our lives in every way and in the process, we get bureaucracies that don’t work; people that on Friday afternoons, they’re gone before noon.”
Sen. Hatch: “We’ve got all kinds of feather-bedding going on in the federal government that shouldn’t be here. You know, when you look at the health care program they tried to pawn off on America, it is everything that’s wrong with Washington in the eyes of the American public and yet it would have built the Democrat constituency like you can’t believe: More and more people living off more and more of the government, and it’s the little red hen story that’s getting to the point where if we don’t get it under control, a lot of good people are just going to quit working and quit paying their share and quit trying and that’s just wrong. It isn’t fair to do this to the taxpayers of the United States.”
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