Political Quotes

“I appreciate the Senator's assurance, and I withdraw the amendment on that basis. Amendment No. 1419 Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, amendment No. 1419 would correct an unintended staff error in the new Division D funding tables that the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to adopt Tuesday, November 15, 2011. This error unintentionally reduced the President's budget request for the line 154, RDTE AF, JSTARS account by $33 million. This amendment would correct this error and restore the RDTE AF JSTARS account back to the level requested in the President's budget request and approved in the June 22, 2011, SASC-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Both the majority and minority staff directors have acknowledged that this was an unintended staff error and have requested that this be corrected by restoring full funding of the RDTE AF JSTARS account to $121,610,000. Chairman Levin and I agree. EELV Mr. President, as I mentioned when the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 was first brought up on the floor, I wanted to focus on, in the course to the Senate's consideration of this bill, the issue of military space procurement. There can be no doubt that how the Department of Defense procures satellites and space-related capability has gotten unacceptably out of control. In the impending environment of fiscal austerity, the situation has become nothing less than severe.…”