Political Quotes

“But not only did we, the Congress, support a tax cut for the American people, we also supported a $20 billion increase in discretionary spending. And the fact is, we are spending more. Our job as Members of Congress is to make decisions, decisions about where the resources that we get from our taxpayers, where those resources ought to go. For a while, in the late 1990s, revenues were flowing to the Federal Government at unprecedented rates, and we did not have to make as difficult choices as we do today, given the fact that we are in a recession and given the fact that we have been the subject of a serious terrorist attack. So we are making decisions. But when it comes to the education issues that we fund in this bill, we all know when we passed the No Child Left Behind Act that we were going to make a serious commitment to improve all of America's schools, especially the neediest of America's schools.”