Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, today we offer the first budget of the next century and a new agenda, beginning of a new agenda, for the new millennium. We are going to offer a conference report here today; we have offered it. We are going to vote on a conference report here today that represents a work product that we have not seen before on this House floor in my lifetime. It has been our experience to operate in a period where we were rolling up the red ink, adding to the national debt, but more important, continuing to suck power and money and influence from everyday Americans and taking that power, money and influence and vesting it in the central government here in Washington. Mr. Speaker, we are on the verge of being able to pass into law a tremendous transfer of money, power and influence from this city back into the hands of everyday Americans so that we can run America from the bottom up, from our families and communities to the top, and included in this proposal is the notion that we would take every single penny from the payroll taxes that this Federal Government collects from the American people and to lock up $1.8 trillion, all the money that is collected by the Federal Government out of payroll taxes, and to put it in a safe place, into a locked box where we can ultimately use that money as part of a transition program to transform the retirement programs for our senior citizens and at the same time to also guarantee that ba…”