Political Quotes

“I want to tell her, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Procurement, what my jurisdiction includes and what we are adding money for. I want to go through the list, but the most basic one, the one that I charged our staff with first, was to make sure that the troops have enough bullets in their guns to be able to defend the country. That was the first priority that we gave on this $6 billion add-on. To get back to my point, I asked the Marines what it would take to fill their ammunition pouches and to add all the mortar rounds, the howitzer rounds and everything else, starting with basic M-16 bullets for infantrymen. What did they need beyond what President Clinton is providing them in his budget? They said, ``Congressman, we are about 96 million M-16 bullets short. That means we run out. That means our ammo pouches are empty when we get to that point.'' So the first thing we put in this budget was enough money for 96 million M-16 bullets, and we put that in the budget this year.”