Political Quotes

“I rise in support and really I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Gingrich), I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert) and I thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. McCollum) for the leadership as well as those others, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman), the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) and others who have supported this substitute offered by Mr. McCollum. But sections 201 and 204, striking them would not do violence to what the Speaker has just talked about. I even applaud his work in this area. But I would remind the Speaker, as he decried the fact that the administration has not been as supportive as he would like on these issues, I would remind him that the administration is also supporting using the surplus for Social Security, and the other side would like to use it for tax cuts, and that has not stopped the other side from pushing a tax cut bill. The Speaker has spoken so eloquently about education over the past several months. He has decried efforts in the public arena to educate kids. That did not stop him from pushing a voucher program because he thought that our public schools were not educating our kids. We have evidence, ample evidence, that much of the money that we are spending in these areas is not actually being used to fight drug trafficking.”