Political Quotes

“With this funding bill, we can move back toward a position of peace through strength, and we can keep American families safe. Mr. Speaker, I urge the adoption of the rule and the underlying legislation. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would just respond to my colleague from Wyoming who said that talk will not fund our military, or that talk will not upgrade our military equipment, and I agree. Nobody is asking the other side to talk. We are asking them to do their job. We are asking them to go and sit down with Republicans and Democrats and work out a deal on the budget caps. In order to do any of this stuff, we have to know how much we can spend. Before you go shopping, you have to know how much you are going to spend. I know my Republican friends don't want to take responsibility for what is clearly incompetence, but, the bottom line is, in the Senate, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hasn't even marked up the Defense Appropriations bill yet. And the last time I checked, the Republicans controlled the Senate--I wish they didn't, but the Republicans control the Senate. And as my colleague from Wyoming knows, bills don't move in the House or the Senate without the Republican leadership moving it. So I think it is clear that this Republican-controlled government can't do its job, and November can't come soon enough, for me, because I think there needs to be a major change here.…”