Political Quotes

“We have a domestic spending bill that has been worked out through the House and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans. We have the White House which has been involved in that. That part should be fairly easy. It may not be everything we want, it may be more than what some want, but it should not take a lot of time. We have three amendments relating to the debate on the war funding. One is the McConnell amendment which will try to increase war funding up to $70 billion out of the $196 billion the President has asked for. We also are going to have an amendment offered by Senator Feingold that will deal with a matter we brought before the Senate on other occasions which calls for our troops to be back by the middle of May of this next year, leaving troops to take care of counterterrorism, force protection, and training the Iraqis to a limited extent.”