Bill Lipinski Quotes

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

The federal contribution to our state for education has gone from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent. The federal government may be a contributor but this is hardly a partnership.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

Government can’t work if lawmakers don’t give Government agencies the funds they need to do their work.

One of the things we have to understand is that federal transportation dollars require a local match. If that money isn't there, that money goes to another state.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

I'm not going to deprive my constituents of money that's out there.

When the Budget has once been approved by the President and transmitted to Congress, it is his budget estimate and no officer or official of the War Department would have any right to come up here and attempt to get a single dollar more than is contained in that estimate .

To pay the price of federal mandates, local governments must cut the services that they are in the business of providing ... To Congress we say, if you're going to pass the bill, don't pass us the buck.

I don't care what kind of speeches you make as long as you don't vote against the appropriations.

Congress really likes the power that comes from the Highway program or messing in education.

The revenue of the state is the state.

We in Congress have the money but we don’t have the expertise.

If it was up to me, I would have put more money into the state fiscal relief.

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.

I've been able to bring billions of dollars back to our state that has so desperately needed it - billions of dollars in relief to homeowners and our communities and our pension systems that desperately need it.

The way our federal agencies are funded, the way the authorizing of these programs are done, I think needs to be completely revamped.

My appropriations requests have always sought to benefit New Jersey. That is how I base my submissions to the committee for consideration.