My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
The defense industry understands that the military budgets will continue to be cut until a new threat comes along.
I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.
The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
I know that the DeVos agenda has absolutely devastated our public school system in Michigan.
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.
I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated.
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans.
The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.
At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.
You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.
I'd clean house at the National Endowment for the Arts ... the place would be shut down, padlocked and fumigated.
Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not.
