Political Quotes

“I believe that our seniors, I believe that our children, I believe that our education programs, I believe that our environmental programs are going to be protected by the budgeting which we have this year. So I rise in opposition to the motion to instruct. I believe we must balance the budget. Earlier in this year, as the appropriation process went forward dealing with the 602(b)'s, 28 of us over here on the Republican side signed a letter to the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] and the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] asking them to be expansive with respect to Labor-HHS-Education bills and the VA-HUD and Independent Agency bills, and they have responded to that, I think, differently than last year. I think we are in a situation now in which we can support the budget which is going ahead, but we must never forget that ultimately if we are going to help these children and these families and these senior citizens, we must balance the budget of the United States of America.”