Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. MS. AYOTTE. Madam President, I come to the floor to speak about an amendment I made to the continuing resolution. This is a continuing resolution for appropriations bills which are pending on the floor right now, and we are spending over $1 trillion. I filed an amendment, amendment No. 127, which would have struck the funding of $380 million for a missile to nowhere. This is funding for a program called the Medium Extended Air Defense System, otherwise known as MEADS. Up to this time, we have expended $3 billion for this system. Yet we will never receive a result our Army or our military can use. This is why it is a missile to nowhere. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin, has said of the funding for this MEADS program: With regard to the committee, we feel strongly that it is a waste of money. In the 2012 Defense authorization, the Senate Armed Services Committee made very clear this was going to be the last appropriation for this missile to nowhere. In the 2013 authorization, on a unanimous bipartisan basis before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the committee voted to say no more money for a missile to nowhere. Right now, our military is facing great challenges with sequestration. We have heard this from our military leaders.…”