Political Quotes

“I believe the conference committee did, given what it had to work with, a very good job. I was particularly pleased that they have adopted language which will enable the President to refuse to go ahead with any new B-2 bombers. I assume, given the President's strong position on this and the Pentagon's opposition to new B-2 bombers, that he will in fact use this authority and we will not be further committing to the construction of new B-2 bombers. But there is still a fundamental problem with the bill. I want to talk about two of them. First, it continues to spend too much money. Roughly 50 percent of the discretionary spending allowed to the Federal Government under the recently signed budget deal will be consumed by the military and related intelligence functions. Every other function of the Government, environment, public safety here at home, transportation, they are all going to suffer increasingly from inadequate funding.”