Political Quotes

“I am strongly in support of it. We must never again shut down government, causing a situation we do not want to have repeated; an incredible waste of resources, important work left undone, tremendous cost to taxpayers and what it did to the morale of our civil servants. This amendment is going to provide for an automatic continuing resolution at 100 percent of the fiscal year 1997 level. Yes, we did try to get an amendment in the Committee on Rules... that would have assured that no Federal employees would be RIF'd or furloughed. That did not happen, but we are going to monitor it very closely to make sure that they are not. We think that this is an excellent amendment. The argument I have heard defies logic, when somebody says we are going to waste money, somebody said we are going to hold back on money that should be spent. I just do not quite understand the logic, because as far as I am concerned, this is the assurance that our civil servants need, a safety valve, the least we can do.”