Political Quotes

“The Senator is correct. Let me suggest--and I think Senator Lott, the Senator from Mississippi, understands this--that I have tried every way possible to put a firewall in, without being subject to a point of order. I tried in committee, and I lost 11 to 10 or 10 to 9, or whatever it was. Whenever that comes up on a floor, a point of order is raised. Once, the Senator from Georgia and I got 54 votes or something. So it cannot be done. Senator Lott did not find a way to do it either. So there is no wall--even if the language he uses, which is very well-crafted, says that you can only take these cuts against nondefense discretionary. The amount of money described there is not the discretionary budget of America but rather the piece attributable to the Exon cut. So all the rest of it is clearly mobile, as I see it. The Senator used the word ``fungible.''”