Political Quotes

“last week we learned from an internal Bush administration budget memo detailing their planned cuts. According to the budget document, education, transportation, Social Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and the Small Business Administration are all in line for drastic cuts in their budgets. Head Start, for example, a $177 million cut. The National Institutes of Health would be slashed by more than $600 million. The administration is planning cuts for 2006; and all the while, they are asking for an additional $25 billion to rebuild and secure Iraq. The additional $25 billion for Iraq is on top of the $165 billion the American taxpayers have already allocated and paid. These reconstruction funds are building schools, roads, and encouraging business development in Iraq; and all the while, we are making corresponding cuts here at home. I understand that we need to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, but not at the expense of what we do here in the United States. Mr. Speaker, when President Bush in 2000 declared his opposition to nation-building, who knew it was America he was talking about.”