Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to support the amendment offered by my good friend from Oklahoma. America is today at a crossroads--a crossroads where we have the opportunity as policymakers to go in the direction that the people of America said we should go in on November 2 or to have the opportunity to go down the road of continuing to spend money by this body and the body across the Capitol, without paying for the money we are spending. These amendments are pretty simple and straightforward. What they say is that we as policymakers have an obligation to listen to the people who sent us here, listen to the people who said, by golly, we don't like the way you are running the financial resources that we send to Washington. And here we are, the minority leader, Senator McConnell just sat down from saying and talking about an omnibus bill that goes in the wrong direction--a direction that is totally opposite of what the people of America said they wanted on November 2. Now we are going to have a vote today on the tax package that, in my opinion, is a good package. Only in Washington is a package which says that if you continue to tax people at the rate they are being taxed today, it adds to the deficit. There is another part to that. There are additions to that tax package that do provide for additional spending-- spending that can be paid for, without any feeling on the part of the offsets, or the people who are going to be affected by the offsets, as Senator Coburn has proposed.…”