Political Quotes

“I thank you. Madam Speaker, Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, but today is Ground Hog Day. I know it is because we're getting the same bill we got last week. It looks the same. Matter of fact, it's so much the same that I recognized it from an earlier document, the President's budget. In his package on performance and management, the President had already determined to do pretty much what we're putting here. Matter of fact, we're codifying in statute, plus throwing in $75 million of additional cost, what the President already was doing. We're not giving him anything that he doesn't already have authority for and is doing. Really what we're doing is simply allowing the President to say it's okay for me to spend $75 million more on what I already wanted to do; it's okay because I'm under this mandate of Congress. It's okay for this Congress to go sine die really talking about things they were accomplishing when this doesn't accomplish anything. I will be voting against this because I don't want to spend $75 million doing what the President already put in his own document. Madam Speaker, I would ask that this excerpt from the President's performance and management review to be placed in the Record. 7. DELIVERING HIGH-PERFORMANCE GOVERNMENT For too long, Washington has not responsibly managed the tax dollars entrusted it by the American people.…”