Political Quotes

“I was listening very carefully to my colleague, and I heard him talk about what is being proposed in this bill as being accounting tricks and cover. I am going to repeat again that what this bill is doing is exactly what then-Senator Obama, then-Senator Kerry, then-Senator Biden voted for in 2008. There is nothing new here. We are going into another President, and we are giving that President an opportunity to take a look at the situation and come back to us and tell us what they want. He said that this will drive up the deficit. It only drives up the deficit if we are not willing to work together to cut in other places because national defense is more important than anything else we do. If we don't want to drive up the deficit--and I sure don't want to drive up the deficit--let's talk about some serious cuts to other parts of the budget that aren't nearly as important as national defense. He called the overseas contingency account a slush fund. It is a fund directly requested by President Obama. It was requested by the President before him. It is something we have done for a while. It is adequately accounted for. There is plenty of oversight over it. So it is not a slush fund at all. The gentleman from Colorado said that we should be careful about overinvesting as the Russians did relative to GDP.…”