Political Quotes

“this budget resolution is a failed economic plan. Fourteen months ago, this body passed a tax cut worth $1 trillion, a little over $1 trillion; and the net result has been 2.5 million Americans without work, 4 million Americans without health insurance, nearly $1 trillion worth of corporate assets have been foreclosed on, and 2 million more Americans have left the middle class for poverty. That is the net economic result and the economic effect felt by America's families. In this budget resolution, Members of this body will be asked to vote for only 5,000 new units for affordable housing here in America. Yet, 3 weeks from now, 4 weeks from now in the reconstruction budget for Iraq, we will provide 20,000 units in Iraq. This budget calls for no new spending for health care for the uninsured who work full-time in America, yet the Iraqi reconstruction will call for $13 million, half the population of Iraq, to have basic health care, 100 percent maternity coverage; yet we cut Medicare and Medicaid in this budget resolution. In the area of education, the Iraqi reconstruction calls for 25,000 new schools to be rebuilt, yet we zero out 40 programs here in America. I will support and work towards the reconstruction and funding for the reconstruction of Iraq because it is the right thing to do after this war when it is over, and we will win it successfully. But I want that same commitment, that same emphasis for here at home.”