Political Quotes

“I hope the House will vote this down. First, we are dealing with a budget which we adopted recently which Members know will severely constrain our ability to spend on a variety of purposes a few years from now. Passing this authorization guarantees if we follow through with it that 2 and 3 years from now we will not have the money to continue to put police on the streets with Federal help, we will not have the money to provide health care to people who need it, we will not have the money to deal with environmental situations, every domestic purpose now hurting. Transportation, we are in a terrible dilemma right now because we cannot afford to go forward with our transportation needs. Pass this authorization and we greatly exacerbate that dilemma, because we take some of the money we have available for other purposes, and the logic of this authorization, if we mean it honestly, will be to eat into that. In particular, the conference committee backed away from this House's clear statement that we should put a limitation on the amount of money we spend for NATO by totally dismissing the overwhelming vote of this House to put some limit on what the American taxpayer is expected to spend for the expansion of NATO.”