Political Quotes

“My amendment would reduce the proposed funding for salaries and expenses for the Office of Community Planning and Development by $3.5 million. This amendment, like the ones I presented last night and the one I just presented, would freeze the funding for these offices. I've heard my good friend from Iowa and my good friends on the other side talk about how the underlying bill has cut expenses for this whole underlying bill, but here in the House of Representatives, we've reduced our expenses by over 11 percent. It seems to me that it just makes fiscal sense to freeze funding for these offices in the underlying bill and not raise them. We're in an economic emergency as a Nation. We are spending money that we simply do not have. We've got to stop the outrageous spending that's going on here in Washington, and I'm just asking a simple thing: let's freeze all of these offices at the current year's levels for 1 more year. Hopefully, next year we'll have policy put in place that will increase our economy and start creating jobs here in this Nation, but we're not doing that this year with this administration and the policies that we see in the other body on the other side of the Hill. So let's just freeze the expenses of this office, and I'm proposing to freeze the expenses of virtually all the offices in this bill--most of them, anyway--and my amendment would bring the spending level that's proposed back to the current spending level of 2012.…”