Political Quotes

“I rise in support, very strong support of this motion to instruct. With respect to offsets and with respect to the necessity to move the supplemental as quickly as possible both for our farmers and for those victims of Mitch, we have, as the gentlewoman indicated, some 800,000-plus people. We see the pictures of refugees in Albania and in Macedonia being created by the violence and, from my perspective, war crimes being committed by the Milosevic army. But having said that, we also know that there are other reasons to support this motion to instruct. I want to specifically refer to the Y2K emergency fund that was put in, the supplemental that we proposed last year, or the omnibus bill we appropriated last year, some $2.25 billion for nondefense agencies to make sure their critical computer systems are Year 2000 compliant. The motion that the Senate adopted would cut that by 44 percent.”