Political Quotes

When the amendment says that you have to balance estimated outlays and estimated receipts rather than real outlays and real receipts, that is fairly significant. When the amendment also says you can have a capital budget and for State…

I simply want to commend the Senator from Oregon. The reality is that we have to simply face up to this thing. The Senator has learned, as he says, from experience, that we have to do this. We just cannot let these things go up endlessly…

Mr. President, if you take a look at that interest that the Senator has already pointed out has grown from 6 to 14 percent, GAO says by the year 2020 that is going to grow to 37 percent. You can imagine the squeeze on defense spending. And…

As the Senator knows, we have an agreement and it would take unanimous consent to permit the Warner amendment to be adopted. This has obviously changed some, slightly. But if you will look at their projections from 1990 down, take a look…