Political Quotes

“a few weeks ago, I invited voters from my district to a meeting in Concord, MA. to try their hand at cleaning up the budget mess. Roughly 260 people took me up on the offer. They broke into small groups, and went to work drawing up plans to balance the budget. With the full range of budget choices laid out before them, the players were asked to make the decisions needed to balance the budget. Only 16 of the 25 groups had produced a plan 1 hours later. Not one Democrat or Republican managed to balance the budget without raising taxes. Let us face it, Congress needs a balanced budget amendment to eliminate the deficit. But it is not going to take the rest of the country very long to figure out what the people in Concord, MA, discovered last weekend: That the Contract With America version of the balanced budget amendment is a hoax. If we are serious about balancing the budget, we cannot take anything off the table yet--not even tax increases. Let us stop trying to fool the American people. Vote for the Stenholm-Schaefer amendment today, and pass a real balanced budget amendment.”