Political Quotes

“I want the people of the Second District of West Virginia to know that there are 113,085 children that the gentleman from West Virginia does not feel ought to get the tax credit to the tune of over $56 million. I would say to the gentleman, just keep banking on raising people's taxes and raising Federal spending and defending the pork-barrel politics of the leaders of your State, and you will find yourself with a slower economy. In addition to the arguments that have been made here, Medicare and Medicaid, under the Kasich substitute, Medicare increases by $87 billion; Medicare increases by $87 billion under our plan. Medicaid is $63 billion. The Clinton plan, of course, makes $130 billion worth of Medicare cuts. So I would warn my friends to be very careful of that, and furthermore, the Veterans' Administration gets funded at the same level under the Republican plan as under the Democrat plan. We get more for veterans and less for bureaucracy.”