Political Quotes

“I will not list all of these, but suffice it to say, again, on January 16, as reported in your book, there was a vote on an amendment you had offered to add $5 billion. By a party-line vote that was defeated. It had $5 billion. You reduced it to $2 billion. That was defeated by a party-line vote. On April 2 and April 3, you had amendments which provided $4.8 billion more than the President requested. All of the amendments were defeated. On July 24, 2003, I say to Senator Byrd, you--quoting from your book--``offered an amendment to the homeland security bill that would have provided $292 million for activities such as port security grants, grants to train firefighters to respond to a terrorist attack, funds to help the Coast Guard provide security at our ports, funds for locating terrorism vulnerabilities at chemical plants'' and the amendment was defeated on a party-line vote. Finally, on September 17, 2003, shortly before we recessed: . . . in the House-Senate conference on the same homeland security appropriations bill, [the Senator from West Virginia] again tried to add homeland security money, $1.25 billion for port, aviation, Coast Guard, customs, first responders, and chemical facility programs, and [his] amendment failed on a party-line vote. Continuing to quote from ``Losing America,'' the Senator from West Virginia wrote: Nobody can convince me that this White House is serious about homeland security. The Senator, of course, recalls that.…”