Political Quotes

“I want to spend a few minutes this afternoon talking about what is going to happen on March 1, something we have known is going to happen for 18 months. Nobody really wanted it to happen this way, but I want to make the case if we give the administration the flexibility, we can easily swallow $85 billion a year in reductions. I am going to go through a small set of oversight reports I have actually done in the last year or so talking about waste within the Federal Government. We looked at the urban area security grants of the Department of Homeland Security. We looked at the Department of Defense, the programs that were in the Department of Defense which don't have anything to do with defense; that is $67 billion a year. Let me say that again: $67 billion a year is spent in the Department of Defense which has nothing to do with defending the country. We outlined the 100 most wasteful projects, we put that out in December of this year, a treasure map. We looked at the Market Access Program and what it is actually doing to some of the wealthiest agricultural businesses in this country. It is subsidizing their export of sales. Money for nothing, all of the money that we spent that hadn't actually accomplished anything. We did a report on that. Next we did a report on the subsidies for the rich and famous because we do have a mixed-up Tax Code, and over $30 billion a year in benefits goes to a very small number of people in this country inappropriately through our tax cuts.…”