Political Quotes

“Because we had so much notice on this, I thought it was the McCain tax holiday amendment. But, no, it is the McCain effort to change the Jim Webb bipartisan GI bill of rights because it is too generous. So this idea is about the same as the gas tax holiday. He doesn't like the GI bill of rights because it is too generous. Now I am wondering if we want to debate Iraq on this bill because we are happy to do it. We are happy to debate an intractable civil war that is costing the American people $5,000 a second every day of the week, every week of the month, every month of the year, $5,000 a second. No weekends off, no holidays, $5,000 a second of borrowed money. Do we want to debate the Iraq war? Is that what we want to do on this bill that was set aside to deal with firefighters, police officers, and first responders? Those people came to my office today, some in uniform, some in plain clothes, because that is what they do. Some of them wear their uniform to work every day. Some do other work so they can't wear the uniform. They are undercover. But no--I apologize to everyone. I thought we were on the McCain tax holiday. But, no, we are now on the GI bill of rights McCain effort because it is too generous. The bipartisan bill of Jim Webb that he wrote himself, bipartisan in nature, is too generous according to John McCain. We are happy to debate that. If that is what this body needs to do is to start the supplemental debate a week early, we can do that too.”