Lynn A. Westmoreland: “I think what a lot of folks are witnessing today is some more smoke and mirrors, another magic show that they may have…”

“I think what a lot of folks are witnessing today is some more smoke and mirrors, another magic show that they may have seen somewhere. We have the chairman of the Appropriations Committee who said that the President's budget would spend 48 percent less this year on education and some other things that he mentioned than 1980, but yet they talk about what kind of spending spree we are on. I can't imagine what kind of spending spree the Democratic majority must have been on in 1980. Let me say this. We keep hearing a lot of history lessons, a lot of history in here. For some reason we don't want to talk about the future. But we keep hearing about the $57 billion from the people in this country that make over $1 million. Now, I really don't know if that's true or not. I am going to assume the chairman of the Appropriations Committee knows if that's true or not. But it's almost like he sounds mad that he can't get his hands on somebody else's money. He says, you know, we can't get that $57 billion, and we want to spend it. I am mad about it. You know what? We are spending too much money on the war on terror. Well, look, I have only been here 3 years, but I know one thing. I know that the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the Democratic leadership over there can stop this war today, today. They got 232 votes.”