Political Quotes

“I thank you very much. I was not planning to participate, but something the Senator said makes me want to, and that is during the discussion with the Senator from Maryland on the vote on the deficit reduction package, which the Senator from New Hampshire says is, in fact, not working, every expert in the country says that the deficit would have been $500 billion higher. But let us not even get into that because what I want to ask the Senator are two basic questions. First of all, the Senator said at that time he did not like the package that the President sent over, the deficit reduction package, because it contained some tax increases of which he did not approve. We also know it contained a large tax cut for the working poor and far many more people are affected in a positive way from that tax cut. But let us put that aside. The Senator said he would have preferred instead of raising taxes-- and he puts it at $250 billion--he would have cut spending $250 billion. So my question is, did the Senator offer an amendment to cut $250 billion and show us how he was going to cut $250 billion from the deficit? I do not recall it.”