Political Quotes

“Yes, and I say to my friend, these moneys are so important to the people of our respective States, there is no question about that. I think it is a shame, for lack of a better description, that we do not have it in the supplemental. I repeat that. If there ever was an emergency, this is it. We have not budgeted for these moneys, and the fire that swept Arizona is 400,000 acres. We had a fire in Nevada at Lake Tahoe--we are so thankful it did not ravage that basin--of only 1,000 acres. In the last 2 years, we have had over 2 million acres burn in Nevada, not forestland but rangeland. We need to take care of this emergency. It should be done in the supplemental, but the majority leader, myself, and anyone on this side who has jurisdiction will do whatever we can to speed this up as quickly as possible.”