Political Quotes

“if I have ever seen a piece of legislation that might be a candidate for a veto, I think the block grant is it. I think replacing 100,000 policemen on the street and a prevention program that works versus a $10 billion giveaway with no guarantees that takes $2.5 billion out of prevention is the wrong way to go and is likely to run into great difficulty with the Clinton administration. The amendment that I am going to offer with my colleague from New York and many other Members supporting would effectively strike the block grant program, replace it with the bipartisan police and prevention package that we had in the last bill and won the support of Governors, mayors and, yes, law enforcement officials at the local level. So rather than cutting the authorized amount to $10 billion, it would fully authorize the two packages at $12.5 billion.”