Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this will be the fourth time this year the Senate will be voting on an amendment offered by the Senator from Alabama which seeks to constrain discretionary spending. Each one of the amendments has been similar. This is the fifth time I have risen to speak in opposition to this amendment, and I must admit I find myself somewhat at a loss for words. There are only so many ways to highlight the negative impact of this amendment on current services and the President's initiatives, while explaining how it does not address real deficit reduction. Fortunately, the Senate has voted this amendment down three times already. I thank my colleagues for rejecting this amendment in the past, and I certainly hope we will do so again. There are a number of reasons why this amendment is a bad idea. Let me remind my colleagues, again, of several of those reasons: The Senator from Alabama uses last year's budget resolution as his starting point. He believes that since Congress passed a budget resolution last year with a nonbinding target for this year, that we should now make that target binding. But, since this amendment was originally proposed, the Budget Committee has reviewed the President's budget request for fiscal year 2011 and has marked up a new budget resolution. In doing so, the committee has changed their recommendation.…”