"the Senate must pass, as soon as possible, a funding bill that provides the Department of Defense the resources it needs"
"I am actively working to defeat it. There are many members of the Senate who have provisions in it for their states, who are also actively working to defeat it. This bill should not go forward."
"And regardless of whether members had some input in the bill much earlier in the year when the bills could have been moved to the floor bill by bill by bill, it is completely and totally inappropriate..."
"The Defense Authorization Bill requires four or five weeks to debate. But instead of having that debate or turning to the Defense Appropriations Bill which funds the military, they want to use this we..."
"Once you get on the defense bill it typically takes two weeks. I don't see how we can possibly finish the Defense Authorization Bill, a two-week bill. Fully aside from these controversial items that a..."
"The defense authorization bill requires four or five weeks to debate. But, instead of having that debate or turning to the defense appropriations bill, which funds the military, they want to use this ..."
"Once you get on the defense bill, it typically takes two weeks. I don't see how we can possibly finish the defense authorization bill, a two-week bill -- wholly aside from these controversial items th..."
"Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody."
"I will join the Republican leadership in the House in support of a moratorium on earmarks."
"I'm willing to listen to what the president has in mind for protecting Americans from tax increases."
"That if the Dean Democrats were in charge, Saddam would still be in power, murdering his own people like he used to."
"If we cut and run in Iraq, they'll follow us here."