Political Quotes

“Gentlemen of the House, I rise in total opposition to the Black Caucus budget resolution and in total support of the Kasich resolution. I also rise in opposition to the Budget Committee resolution and tell you that through experiences I have had within the last 60 days in my district I had the opportunity to hold town meetings throughout all of my six counties. The one common thread of complaint that I heard was that the people of Alabama and the people of America are sick and tired of the Government growing at the pace it is growing. They are tired of the Federal Government telling us what time of day we are going to get up, tired of all of these new programs that tell us how much money we are going to earn, how much we are going to keep. They are tired of big government, and the message they gave to me was, yes, do something about health care; yes, do something about crime. But the strongest message was do something about the growth of that Government; stop this wasteful spending; stop these new programs. That is precisely what the Kasich bill does. It starts us on the road toward these reductions in diametric opposition to what the Mfume bill does and the budget resolution does, because he is growing big Government. In addition to that, the Black Caucus budget reduces the national defense to the point that we might not even have enough money for one platoon, $175 billion less than the Budget Committee requested.”