Political Quotes

“I support sending this bill back to the Committee on the Budget. There is so much work the conference committee still has to do. I say with respect to the gentlewoman who talked about missing pages, there are more than just pages missing from this document. There are whole chapters that are missing. Just look at the President's priorities that are not funded or included. How are we going to pay for national missile defense? The President is talking about that. That is hundreds of billions of dollars not recognized in this budget document. How are we going to pay for his military build up that he is going to ask for in 2 weeks, probably $25 billion a year? How are we going to pay for that? It is not mentioned in this budget. How are we going to pay for his proposal to privatize Social Security? If that is implemented, there are probably $1 trillion in transition costs; yet this budget document is completely silent on those Presidential priorities. There is an awful lot missing in this document, Mr. Speaker. The problem is it cuts taxes too deeply, and it has far too little for debt reduction. The American people want us to pay down the debt. The American people I represent want debt reduction. That is a higher priority for them than large tax cuts, and they do not want us to take our budget process back to unbalanced budgets, deficit spending, and years and years of debt.”