These grants... you will look back on this and say this is the best money we ever spent.

We've increased programs for prevention by $45 million, a very substantial increase.

The Act also provides $2.0 billion for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) operations for disaster relief.

For the first time in a long time, we'll be making a meaningful downpayment on the massive Federal deficit.

If we don't do it, this deficit will move up toward $500 billion and $600 million a year.

The law simply requires that we chart a course for every endeavor that we take the people's money for.

This plan has 200 specific spending cuts, and it reduces Government spending by more than $250 billion.

This money will be spent to reduce the deficit and to provide economic incentives.

This is the largest program for deficit reduction in the history of the country, $500 billion.

Now, our opponents chant like a mantra; they say, 'Less tax, more cuts; less tax, more cuts.'

I'd like to see a balanced budget amendment for America, to protect the American taxpayers.

We have spent $800 billion in the last 10 years, cleaning up the environment.

I would like to have that line-item veto.

S. 1722 would effectively destroy the integrity of the bipartisan budget agreement and put into place a poorly designed, unnecessarily expensive program that would significantly increase the Federal deficit.

And yes, we want to help people, but also we want to see that what we do is fiscally sound.

We must not let Congress raise the gas tax for projects that towns don't even need.

The bill would increase the Federal budget deficit by up to $110 million in FY 1990 and $630 million over five years.

Each bit of additional spending always looks small and unimportant against the total Federal budget.