Political Quotes

“I think my friend makes a very important point about the priorities when he talks about the overall size of this budget of the United States of America. Comparing that with the $200 million we are asking for in this program would add 370,000 children who are awaiting in line. I ask my friend another question. Our friend from Pennsylvania is not supporting our amendment and alludes to the fact that, well, we just can't keep spending more. But yet every Republican, as I remember, voted for an enormous tax cut of billions and billions of dollars. Now that is off the table. I say to my friend, it seems ironic there would be complaints about spending more on education than the bill already provides, when every single one of my Republican friends voted for this huge tax cut to benefit the wealthiest. All we want is to take a relatively small amount of that and put it into afterschool.”