Political Quotes

“I, along with a number of other people, were at the White House yesterday. They were asking us what we were going to do about getting appropriations bills passed, especially the military bill that affects our defense. We have 13 appropriations bills. Two of them are defense related-- military construction and defense. We reported out of the appropriations subcommittee yesterday the largest military appropriations bill in the history of the country-- some $350 billion, approximately. The Military Construction Subcommittee reported it out. It came out of the committee, and we want to bring this to the floor. We have wanted to get it here for 2 weeks. They won't let us. The excuse now is forest fires. The defense of this country depends on our doing these bills. Military construction is important for the fighting men and women of this country. We have 10 or 11 forest fires burning in Nevada right now. The people of Nevada want to go forward to help the service men and women of this country with military construction. It is an excuse. It doesn't matter what we do over here to get a bill up. It doesn't matter what we do. It isn't quite right.”