Political Quotes

“I raise the issue for my constituents on this question as really presenting one direct question: Should Congress be more responsible about spending the hard-earned tax dollars taken from the citizens of this great country? Simple as that. Should the Congress be more responsible about how to spend that money? Now, we heard my colleague the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) talk about this being a Tax Limitation Amendment. It is an amendment designed to make it a little bit more difficult to raise taxes on the American people. And then I stand up, as one of the other chief sponsors of this and say, it really is about spending. Well, let me draw the link. The problem is, when it is easy to raise taxes, as it has been in this country for too long, then we can be too casual about how we spend that money. This measure is designed to achieve a very important goal and that goal is to make us, the Members of Congress, be more responsible about the way we spend your money.”