Political Quotes

“I think this is too bad, for lack of a better way to describe things. This bill is not the proper place for this type of funding. With all due respect to my friend from Arizona, this does not create any pressure, holding up the Military Construction Subcommittee bill. We have to understand that if we are going to take care of the men and women who are defending our country, we need to take care of the bills that fund them. I have indicated I am concerned about firefighting in Nevada. We have fires burning as I speak, but never in the history of this country, that I am aware, have we funded firefighting through the military construction bill, and we are not going to do it in the future. Holding up this bill creates a false illusion that we are accomplishing something regarding firefighting in this country. I hope that in the next couple of hours, as my friend from Arizona said, more deliberation can come and that we can move forward on this bill. I am terribly disappointed we do not have more things declared emergencies. It is hard to believe, but the terrible disaster that occurred in Oklahoma where a barge ran into part of our interstate freeway system, dumped more than a score of cars in the river, killed at last count about 14 people, that is not deemed an emergency to fix that road. Now if that is not an emergency, I do not know what is.”