Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I just heard the previous speaker say that the Republican position on the bill on the floor is extremism run amuck. After listening to him, I think his statement is hyperbole run amok. The fact of the matter is again we hear this Chicken Littleism. "The sky is falling. Call Henny Penny. The world is going to come apart at the seams." My goodness; $270.9 billion is appropriated in this bill to help people. A major credit card, perhaps the biggest domestic credit card in the history of the free world, paid for by the courtesy of the American taxpayer, to help people in need. Now, he says all the job programs are going to be eliminated. All the people that ever lose their job in the next year, move from one job to the other, are going to be without help. My goodness, there are currently 163 separate programs for Federal employment training operations, across 15 departments and agencies, with 40 interdepartmental offices. That is according to the GAO. That is what the General Accounting Office says. For the youth at risk on which we hear the concerns of the gentleman from Ohio, there are 266 additional Federal programs across eight departments and agencies. For JTPA, the training program that the gentleman talked about that sometimes works and sometimes does not, we would spend $3.3 billion; $1 billion on the JOB Program; another $1.1 billion on Job Corps. Sooner or later we have to get some common sense.…”