Political Quotes

“I ask my colleagues to give a very serious look at the CBC budget this year, a year when we can afford this budget. Mr. Chairman, in the 1980's we saw a massive transfer of funds from the domestic side of the budget to the military side of the budget. If we look for a theme in the CBC budget this year, it is giving something back from that side of the budget where we have been largely successful to the domestic side of the budget, once again. Mr. Chairman, we are paying for the transfer and we are paying dearly. As we look at the crime in our streets, Mr. Chairman, we know that the causes are multiple, but is there a person in this body who would not concede that the cities did not profit from the transfer from one side of the budget to the other? Look at what our budget would do in education, training, and social services. We are asking for nearly $2 billion more than the $19 billion that is already in the budget. The money would go for job training, for Pell grants, for job creation in the health care industry, for example. Something has begun to happen to me in the streets of the District of Columbia. Over and over again, young black men, in particular, come up to me say what I have not heard them say directly to my face before, 'Congresswoman, I need a job,' over and over again.”