Political Quotes

“I want to congratulate him. He really is one of our more creative budgeteers, and he truly means it when he says he wants to get this country on a paying basis. And I am reluctant to disagree with him on this one amendment, but I applaud his efforts because if we had more like him, we would definitely be balancing our budget sooner rather than later. But for the Record, this bill is fully paid for in budget authority as it currently is written. The Congressional Budget Office scores the bill as fully paid for in budget authority, and that is no different from the way we have paid for emergency spending over the last 2 rac{1}{2} years, since January 3, 1994. Everyone should know that this amendment strikes two-thirds of the funding the bill provides for in FEMA. It simply fails to recognize that ever increasing strains placed on the agency as flood waters recede in the northern plains States and costs associated with that disaster rise daily. The amendment eliminates roughly, if I got the last figure correct, $2.7 billion or 1.6? Let me get the right figure. It eliminates $2.4 billion of the $3.6 billion that we provided in this bill for FEMA, albeit, as the gentleman has pointed out, in forward funding.”