Political Quotes

“let the last speaker, the gentlemen from California [Mr. Hunter] know that in his State 2,146,900 families are eligible for the earned income tax credit which his side voted against last year. Mr. Chairman, the Kasich priorities are clear. This budget lives in a time warp. It adds more to deficit reduction at a time when the deficit is being dramatically reduced. It adds more to defense at a time when the cold war is over and the United States is the only military power in the world. And what and where does it cut? It cuts increases that were modest indeed, that fund domestic programs that have been on a starvation diet: Head Start, educational reform, dislocated worker training, compensatory education, infrastructure, mass transit, and many others. But, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] missed one. There is no cut in private contractors while career civil servants are facing layoffs. We could actually find modest raises for our career people if we cut personnel services for private contractors. How are we going to reinvent government by laying off some people and denying the rest raises? From the private sector we have borrowed the notion of buyouts, if we can just get them passed and to conference. But there, Mr. Chairman, I say to my colleagues: ``You do buyouts so that you can give regular increases for those who remain to make your business more efficient.'' We should be cutting private contracting no matter what we do with the savings.”