Political Quotes

“Most of this bill is a bipartisan bill. The defense portion of it, which is the largest section, is bipartisan. But it is late and certainly inadequate. The gentleman from Florida just mentioned the fact that it is inadequate. The chairman of the subcommittee mentions that it is inadequate. In the past normally, we have gone to the emergency side where we were not artificially capped by the legislation and passed an adequate amount of money. But realizing the problems we have not only here but in the other body, we know that it is going to be very difficult to pass anything any larger. The thing that worries us the most on this side is some of the disaster relief money that is not available and the fact that one of the ways we have found money to fund some of the other programs is take out of FEMA. Yet we have gotten a letter from the OMB Director and also from the FEMA Director that says he estimates demands far in excess of the amount of money that is available. We have nothing in the Federal Highway Administration's emergency relief program. It is out of money completely.”