Quotable Minnick

“This bill is going to spend more money than we have, it’s going to spend it inefficiently, it’s going to leave things out, and it’s going to spend so much there’s nothing left for anything else,” he said. “I think we could spend a quarter of what we’ll end up spending and still get two-thirds of the job benefits. If it were cost-effective and had an end in sight, I would have voted for it” /Congressman Walt Minnick , explaining why he was one of 11 Democrats to vote against the $819B economic stimulus bill that passed the House this week. Story here (pdf) .

Question: What’s your impression of Walt Minnick’s work in Congress so far?