it is with reluctance that I offer this amendment today, not because the $2.5 billion in cuts I am offering are not important--I support them--but because I think it is inappropriate to be debating deficits at a time of national emergency…

much has been said about the fact that Tip O'Neill was a man who knew where he stood. He knew what he believed in, and he voted his district. He was a man who was rooted in his community of Cambridge, and a man who came from a strong…