Political Quotes

“I am very happy to report I had the pleasure last Friday of joining my colleague from Kansas, Senator Brownback, and several Members of the House, in a trip to Kansas City, MO, with the Vice President and the Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neill. We went out to see a fascinating operation, not well-known, the Federal Financial Management Service branch of the Treasury in Clay County, North Kansas City. There the men and women who work for the Treasury Department's FMS are turning out 1.2 million checks a day. They print the checks, they put them in envelopes, they sort them by ZIP Code, and they are ready to go out the door. They do the whole process there. There are 1.2 million checks a day going out. I do not happen to have the lowest last two digits in my Social Security number, so mine will not be coming for several weeks, but it was thrilling to see a promise made and a promise kept. That is one of the things the Vice President talked about, and the President joined us by videotape to emphasize the fact that last year he said we needed a tax reduction, and he delivered.”