Political Quotes

“I am sure that she will agree the fact is these amendments that are being offered--certainly the Daschle amendment is an attempt ultimately to kill the constitutional amendment to balance the budget. Which, as the Senator has mentioned, this will be our last occasion. This is our window of opportunity, because we have seen a historic vote take place in the House of Representatives last week. For the first time, that body enacted a constitutional amendment. The last time the Senate enacted a constitutional provision and the House did not was in 1982. As I said, since that time, we have seen a 309-percent growth in the debt. That is $3.5 trillion since the last time the U.S. Senate enacted a constitutional provision. We certainly cannot put that onto future generations by failing to do what is important here today. I think all of these amendments that are being offered are being offered in the spirit of killing the constitutional amendment to balance the budget, because they know full well we will in the final analysis balance that budget because we will take that action now.”