Political Quotes

“let me respond to the two questions the Senator from Iowa asked. The first question was where was I during the Inhofe amendment. He presumes, I gather, that I opposed the Inhofe amendment. I didn't oppose the Inhofe amendment. I don't. I guess I would ask where he was. It was approved on a voice vote unanimously, as I understand it. Second, he characterizes my amendment as an attempt to undo what we already did today. I want to make clear that I will characterize my amendment as I did in my opening presentation. What we did earlier today is not what this amendment is all about. The amendment I presume the Senator from Iowa is referring to is the amendment offered by the Senator from New Hampshire. That is an amendment which would have transferred the funds from the program the Senator from Iowa supports to title I programs. My amendment doesn't have anything to do with title I programs. My amendment says merely that the priority in the expenditure of school construction funds--that is what they are used for: construction, repair, renovation, and so on--that the priority for that funding be first to the Federal area of responsibility, the Indian kids, the kids on the military bases, the impact aid districts; in other words, those children who are the responsibility for being educated by the Federal Government should have the first priority in the school construction funds. I am not trying to undo what we did earlier today. I supported the Gregg amendment.”