Political Quotes

“Madam President, despite the repeated statements and warnings from our military and some of our congressional leaders, including myself, we are again staring down the barrel of sequestration. This has been the great fear we have had, and I think we have come to a compromise here that might be liveable--not ideal, not where we should be, but where we are at this time. Each service chief and each Secretary--and I have never seen this before--has testified that no service will be able to meet the wartime requirements under sequestration--that is in the event we have to have sequestration of the military portion. Let me just mention that it was done wrong from the very beginning. When you talk about sequestration, it would seem to me that we would want to be sequestering or reducing in a relationship or proportion as to what that is of the budget. For example, our military is 16 percent of the budget, and yet we have had to take 50 percent of the cuts. So sequestration has gotten us to this point. This budget we will be voting on has kind of a temporary solution or relief from sequestration.…”