Political Quotes

“So what this bill will allow us to do is come back and take bits and pieces of that bill, find those elements where we have enough votes to pass the spending cuts. We will then implement those. Plus, it will provide for a wide range of opportunities for additional cuts. Just think, our constituents will be able to go through and see 435 programs. They will be able to see how much we proposed in cutting, and then they will be able to see how we voted on each one of those items. The other thing that we will be able to see is, I think they might get a better appreciation, because getting down to a balanced budget will not be easy. But they will have seen the decisions that we have made to reduce the deficit. Then perhaps we can go back to them and say, we have gotten half the way there now. You saw some of the programs that we decided to keep. Perhaps you can give us some recommendations on it. We voted to keep this program because we thought it provided a benefit. Is it really providing a benefit to you? Maybe that is a program that you think we, do you think we should cut that program? So it is going to be a process that will open up this Chamber, and I think can open up the process for the country as a whole for us all to focus on reducing the deficit and getting to our objective of a balanced budget.”