Political Quotes

“I thank our ranking Republican member on the Budget Committee because in normal circumstances I would be strongly supporting him and agree with him. The irony is, this legislation conforms to a budget, it conforms to the Paul Ryan House budget and fits under the 302(b) allocation; that is, the amount of money the House granted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee that wrote this bill. When this bill passed our very conservative House of Representatives, only five Members of the House voted against it. All the leading Members of the House voted for it. We talk about needing to make tough decisions. I appreciate the Members and their praise for the underlying legislation because we made some tough decisions. We looked at the President's request and we made a number of cuts. In Alaska, at Fort Wainwright, we cut $57 million from their aviation complex; in Germany, at Gemersheim Central Distribution Facility we cut $21 million; also, at that same facility, their infrastructure we cut by $16 million; at Fort Bliss, for the maintenance facility, we terminated funding for that, also for their infrastructure proposal; at Fort Belvoir, road and infrastructure projects, we terminated that project.…”