Political Quotes

“I want to say to those who have been following the progress of the Republican revolution, this amendment today on the lockbox is critically important. There are a lot of people all over this country, we call them C-SPAN junkies, and many of them are as informed as any group of people you can find within this country, but they did not know, many of them, that if you actually cut spending on an appropriations bill, the money does not go to reduce the deficit; that the money, instead, will go for another spending program. This has been the practice now for about 40-plus years. The Republicans have now been in the majority since January. This is now August. We have essentially been in charge a very limited period of time. Within this very short period of time, however, we are actually, today, going to pass the first official lockbox bill on the House floor, so that as we cut spending, instead of using Washington rules and using it to spend on something else, this actually is going to reduce spending and we will use it to reduce the deficit. You know what that is, Mr. Chairman? That is Main-Street-USA common sense.”