Trent Lott: “You would move a significant portion of the funds in excess of $900 million into another category to be used for exactly…”

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.