Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come back to the floor because, although I left the floor, I made the mistake of doing so. The Senator from Nevada read a list of projects for which money is being appropriated for the State of Arizona. What the Senator from Nevada failed to note was that funding is exactly--and I look at it on page 11 of the bill--exactly that requested by the administration having gone through a merit-based system which then had the administration request funding on projects that had already been authorized. That is a far different--a far, far different procedure, Mr. President, than that of the long list of earmarks that I submitted for the Record which have nothing to do with anything except or--let me put it this way in the most charitable fashion, Mr. President--that has no methodology nor any merit-based system that I know of that will call for the funding of these projects. I also point out just for the Record that Arizona, with the agreement of the rest of the delegation, gave up $4 million that the administration was going to spend on the Central Arizona project, gave up an additional $4 million.”