Political Quotes

“you can see now after 12 weeks that this bipartisan House, under Republican leadership, has passed 9 out of 10 items in the Contract With America. First the balanced budget amendment which only awaits one vote in the Senate. Stop violent criminals. Here we have a law which changed the habeas corpus reform by making sure that there is finality to death sentences where we are dealing with violent criminals for which there is a first degree sentence. Welfare reform. Here we are trying to make sure that able-bodied people will have every right and every incentive to be off welfare within 2 years by giving them job counseling, job training, job placement, and day care, if necessary, and also make sure that we do get healthy meals for our kids with WIC and with the school nutrition programs. Under the Republican proposal which has been passed with a 4.5- percent increase over this year, that is higher than 3.1 percent recommended by the President and the 3.6 percent recommended by the Democrat minority. The fact is that with the 15-percent middleman eliminated by the Federal bureaucrats and the States taking over the program, we are going to have a 5-percent cap on administrative expense, and we will feed more children more meals. We are going to have in the tax cuts for families a very important program. Here we have the tax bill historically passed last night.…”