Political Quotes

“I want to reiterate that this has nothing to do with ending operations in Bosnia. The administration's letter does not say that. It says we will continue Bosnia, but we would then not be able to do other things. Nothing in this amendment is going to cut out any involvement. As a matter of fact, every one of these operations, Bosnia, Iraq, Somalia, and Haiti was going on when we voted the defense budget. There is nothing here that is an emergency in the sense that it came up after the fact. This is not a cut. This is an effort to prevent an add-on. Nothing before the Congress today cuts the defense budget. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is seeking to add to the budget that we adopted. Then we have the procedural question. Members have said, and I respect the integrity of the gentleman from California, who was very open about it, he does not like the procedure but he thinks defense needs more money. He is right.”