Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we all have a great deal of sympathy for the firemen, the policemen, and those first responders who responded to 9/ 11; but like most things government does or gets involved with, they have completely disturbed and destroyed who we are actually helping here. The definition of ``victims fund'' also includes anybody in Manhattan at the time. So, really, Donald Trump is part of this fund as well. Anybody who was in Manhattan is part of this fund. So you dilute what you are actually trying to do--helping first responders--by making your fund so large, so ill-defined, that everybody in Manhattan can apply for your fund. That is why you are short of money. That is why we spend $1.7 trillion in this bill, and yet we come back--the last vote was for a billion, and this is for another 4 or 5 billion. There is no end to this, but it is because government does a poor job of trying to define who they are actually helping. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment. All those in favor--”