Political Quotes

“the budget resolution that is debated on the floor of the House and in the other body, as well, represents a blueprint, a broad outline of our vision and priorities for the future. And as this is the first budget resolution of the 21st century, it ought to reflect our economic priorities as we move into the next century as well. Putting together that blueprint at the Committee on the Budget level, we asked some basic questions. First, what do we do about Social Security, one of the most important issues we will face this year? And as the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan) has clearly described, we said, let us end the raid on the trust fund; let us set aside the entire Social Security surplus, 100 percent, exclusively to strengthen Social Security and Medicare. In contrast to the President's budget that only set aside 62 percent of that surplus, and he spent the other 38 percent. Then we asked the question: What do we do about spending and the growth of the Federal Government? And the answer to that question was: Let us respect the 1997 budget agreement, a bipartisan agreement that controls the rate of growth of government spending.”