Political Quotes

“There are a number of flaws with this amendment. I oppose it, and I would ask everyone to vote ``no'' on it. There are a number of reasons why this is not a good amendment. For one thing, what is being asked for in this amendment has already been done. I have some documents here I would like to show you. This is the defense budget overview. It goes into exhaustive detail, thousands of line items on where the Pentagon spending is going right now--domestic, foreign, everything. {time} 2015 This is available to all Members of Congress. This is the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and just a smattering of other documents: the Missile Defense Review, the National Defense Strategy Commission, the Nuclear Posture Review. All of these documents do what is being asked for. So it is unnecessary. Any Member of Congress, even if they are not on the Armed Services Committee, can come to the committee, can ask the Pentagon, can ask staff on the committee for all of these documents. These are already available. So to ask the Pentagon to regurgitate this to us is just a big waste of their time and money. So for that reason, and there are other reasons also--I will see if there are any further arguments--this is unnecessary and wasteful, and I would urge a ``no'' vote. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”