Political Quotes

“before my friend from Arizona speaks, I ask unanimous consent that the next three votes in order be 10 minutes in duration. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I would like to yield 2 minutes of my 5 minutes to the Senator from Oklahoma. Here we are again, a bill that is 1,221 pages long that not one Member of this body has read. These 1,221 pages represent $915 billion in taxpayer money. Yet here we are with not one amendment. We do, however, have 15 minutes of debate in which to consider a document that is 1,221 pages long, representing $915 billion of taxpayer money, which is filled with unauthorized, unrequested money. Now, I haven't had a chance, like the rest of my colleagues, to look at all of this 1,200-page bill, but we have looked at the defense section. There is $3.5 billion of unrequested, unauthorized funding by the authorizing committee--projects such as this one for Guam. Here are a couple of my favorites. You thought the bridge to nowhere was bad? Well, there are 53 civilian schoolbuses and 53 repair kits for $10.7 million and $12.7 million for a cultural artifacts repository. That is in the name of defense. That is in the name of defense-- schoolbuses and a cultural artifact repository. Here is $100 million for the Next Generation Bomber, which the Air Force says they do not want and they do not need.…”