Political Quotes

“let me say what worries me about this whole procedure. We anticipated that this bill would come out of committee not offset. We expected to have some sort of a vote on the floor, where on the floor they could make a decision one way or the other. Now the normal procedure in the House is that we pass a version and the Senate passes another version, and in most cases we can reconcile that. Here is the problem with this bill: This bill is so different from the Senate version of the bill. From everything I can get from the Defense Department, there is a high degree of possibility that we will be laying off civilian employees in the Defense Department after this is passed because they cannot anticipate that a bill will be passed finally that will be agreed to beyond the Senate and the House. For instance, the version in the Senate side has IMF in, it has all the things that many Members in the House do not agree on. The House obviously does not have all those things in it. The Mexico City language will come into play. So we have a strong possibility, if this rule passes and we are not able to amend it, that this bill may never be passed into law. It means that training will be cut back substantially, it means that we could only train at the platoon level, that recruiting would have to be cut back.…”