Political Quotes

“Let the American people who are watching this debate fully understand exactly what maneuvers are going on here. An attempt is being made to authorize money. The cochairman of the Unfunded Mandates Caucus, and I am a founding member of the Unfunded Mandates Caucus, are doing everything that they can to find language that will in some way be acceptable to people who are claiming that this is an unfunded mandate. That was the purpose of the original Roberts language. Now we have an amendment to that trying to bend over backward to find the language in which the whole argument that this is an unfunded mandate can actually be addressed. Instead, what we have are the people who are using that argument against to try to defeat this bill are defeating the attempt to make it or to address the problem, and the reason why this is happening is because they do not want the Federal Government to address the issue.”