Political Quotes

“What it has to do with is limiting the amount of additions that can be put on supplementals that are designed for Defense spending. The amendment I am offering would attempt to bring some discipline back into the emergency spending process. It simply holds to a supplemental those things that a supplemental was designed for. The very nature of emergency spending is above and beyond the approved budget. If we want to control spending and control the deficit, then we need to control what we put on these kinds of supplemental bills we are seeing worked out right as we speak. However, too often the emergency supplementals are larded with all kinds of pet projects and spending that Members cannot pass in the regular process or others put it in there to get theirs passed. It is an abuse of the process. We are going to end up holding our troops hostage because of extraneous spending. I ask that Members support the amendment, that we hold spending in the supplemental to the military for which it is designed.”