Political Quotes

“I was not going to speak until my colleague on the subcommittee brought up some very touchy points. Now there is money in this bill for the Advanced Technology Program, as the gentleman well knows. There is money in title IV, $100 million for the Advanced Technology Program. All they've got to do is find offsets in other spending to pay for it, and it is there. The President can have the money just like that by signing this bill and finding the offsets. No. 2, this Congress has said heretofore under our leadership, that we are going to reduce the rate of U.N. peacekeeping assessment from 31 percent of the total that the United States has to pay to 25 percent. Unilaterally, we said that. There is money in this bill for that as well, to pay practically the 25 percent that we obligated ourselves to pay, provided the President finds offsets so there is not a deficit spending situation. That is all he has to do. The money is in this bill in title IV for that very purpose. Now COPS. We have debated this thing how many times this year? I think this is the fifth or sixth time we will have voted on this issue. Every time the Congress says it is a waste of money, and instead, let us fund the block grants to the local communities so they can have a say-so about how the money is spent, and yet they simply will not go along down at the White House. This is not a debate over putting more police on the streets.”