Political Quotes

“I want to talk tonight about some of the work that we have done in our committee over the last few months, and I chair a subcommittee that has oversight responsibility for the Education Department. It was back in October, October 29, that me and some of my colleagues from the committee, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Schaffer) and the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Salmon), walked down Capitol Hill. We walked to the Department of Education. We wanted to meet with some of the people at the Department of Education, and we wanted to meet with Secretary Riley to find out if we could help the Secretary find a penny on the dollar of savings. It was when we were going through the budget negotiations and a various range of activities. One of the things that we were saying is, can we find some savings in our various departments so that we can stay within the budget caps, make sure that we do not raid Social Security and actually develop a surplus in the general fund, as well as in the Social Security fund.”