Political Quotes

“I would take back my time to point out to the gentleman that if the amendment that the gentlewoman from Colorado [Mrs. Schroeder] offered passes, you will still have $5 billion over the President's request. If the amendment of the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. Shays], I, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann], and others is adopted, you will have $9 billion over the President's request. The fact is that you do not have to listen to the President's request. So the notion that by cutting $1.8 billion, which would still leave it $9 billion over the President's request, we have endangered that $475 million, I guess that is the kind of excessive threat assessment that leads you to think that you have got to keep pumping this bill up. But the fact is that there is no rational connection between the two and this is a preview of coming distractions.”