Political Quotes

“this bill only trims last year's appropriation by a net of $11 billion. Last year's appropriation in the total Federal budget ultimately amounted to $1.5 trillion. This a little item in the Federal budget. It was also appropriated when the Democrats controlled the Congress. The Democrats, the other party, has said that we have not named specifics. They said you cannot balance the budget unless you give specifics. We have given specifics in this bill. They said that we have not cut the pork. They are the ones that passed the pork. They were in the majority last year and every year before that for the last 40 years. It is their pork. They said that the money that we are cutting goes to tax cuts. We have a proposal that is allowed by this rule, which will be a Democratic Party amendment, to apply these savings only to the deficit. So all of these arguments are nothing more than the same old Chicken Little-ism: The sky is falling, liberals are out of power, and what are we going to do, beat our breasts and talk about the poor and the elderly, when in fact all we are trying to do is bring common sense and sanity to the U.S. Federal Budget.”