Political Quotes

“I want to just take a few minutes to say that we really believe that today, in the consideration of all these budgets, that we would like to take the six themes that I know the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost) is so fond of. I am disappointed that he has left the floor. We wanted to take these six themes and kind of compare all the different budgets that are going to come to the House floor today against what we think is the best proposal. If I could go through this again rather quickly. As my colleagues know, the Republican budget proposal will protect 100 percent of the Social Security surplus for the second year in a row. We will not dip into that surplus. We will use that Social Security surplus only for purposes of paying benefits and paying down the publicly held debt. Secondly, we, in our budget, provide for the strengthening of Medicare, reform of Medicare, and also make money available for a prescription drug for the neediest of our senior citizens. We think it is absolutely vital that those who are needy have access to prescription drugs. Thirdly, we also move to retire the publicly held debt over the next 5 years by $1 trillion.”