Political Quotes

“I am pleased to join my colleague from Georgia (Mr. Broun) to offer this bipartisan and commonsense amendment. The underlying CJS appropriations bill provides $2.42 billion for the Drug Enforcement Administration's salaries and expenses. That is $35 million above last year's--fiscal year 2014--enacted level and above the President's budget request. The report says the increase will ``help DEA offset its necessary pay and non-pay base costs'' and will also ``support DEA's growing enforcement workload.'' Again, a mysterious $35 million above and beyond what the agency requested that Congress is adding without any description of where it is even going that means anything besides bureaucratic gobbledygook, as if we have all the money in the world to hand out to every agency above and beyond what they want at a time of deficits, Mr. Chairman, when this body, like the American people, needs to tighten our belts and where we can try to save money. And here is an opportunity to save $35 million. I have noticed that this same $35 million has been targeted by other Members of this body for their project that is important to their district. Why don't we just add it to the deficit reduction account? What has the DEA done to deserve a $35 million raise when many Americans are not getting raises?…”