Political Quotes

“I just want to say that I agree with everything that the gentleman from Wisconsin has just said but would add that this amendment became necessary because of a shortfall created in the welfare reform program. I want to say that I totally agree with, concur with and support the welfare reform activities that this Congress entered into in the 104th Congress. But when we reduced welfare, in effect we created savings in the entitlement side of the equation or the mandatory portion of the budget, and now we are making up for the differential out of the discretionary portion of the budget. For the average person throughout America, they do not know the difference between mandatory spending and discretionary spending, and they do not care and they need not care. It does not matter to them. But for us who have to work with the numbers day in and day out, we know that we are making great gains in the discretionary portion of the budget pie, saving the American taxpayers money, and we are not making significant or we made less gains on the entitlement side.”