Political Quotes

“I rise to offer a motion to recommit H.R. 3345 to the conference committee with instructions to agree to the provisions committed to conference in the Senate amendment, the Gramm amendment, which stipulated that the savings from "the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act" be placed in the violent crime reduction trust fund, and that the budget caps be reduced by a similar amount. Mr. Speaker, as you know, the House conferees on the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act have ignored the instructions of the House--that the savings generated from the Federal workforce reductions, anticipated at $22 billion over 5 years, be applied toward a violent crime trust fund. This motion was approved by this House by an overwhelming, 90-2, to pass on the savings from this buyout bill to fund what will eventually be Congress'--and the peoples'--anticrime bill. And let me tell you--the people support this effort to fund a crime bill. They would much rather have these funds go toward an anticrime trust fund than have an uncommitted $22 billion which could be spent on any program, regardless of its merit. Let me also say that I have heard arguments against this effort to provide up-front funding for the crime bill because we don't have a crime bill yet. This is political hyperbole, my friends.…”