Political Quotes

“I am sure that we all have high standards for accuracy on this floor, and therefore I wish to comment on certain statements which have been made in recent days. On June 7, the junior Senator from Oklahoma mistakenly represented that the Senate had voted on a version of the balanced budget amendment in the 103d Congress that was ``identically the same'' as the version voted on in the 104th Congress. He then mistakenly inserted into the Congressional Record copes of two resolutions when he represented to be ``the two resolutions that we voted on * * *.'' In fact, he inserted into the Record copies of the resolutions as introduced, but not as amended and actually voted on by the Senate. The two resolutions which were ultimately voted on contained language differences concerning judicial review. The distinguished Senator from North Dakota and I had a colloquy with the Senator from Oklahoma. As we pointed out then, the language differences were not the primary reasons for our votes in opposition to the balanced budget amendment in the 104th Congress. Our opposition stemmed mainly from the dramatic change in the interpretation of section 6 of the proposal concerning implementing language--regarding the intention to count the annual surplus in the Social Security trust fund.”