Political Quotes

“I want to continue the discussion on the Dole amendment which, again, provides an additional cut in spending of $1.3 billion for this fiscal year, the year we are in right now. It would supersede the Daschle amendment that would put back another $1.3 billion in spending, and it leaves in place the $1.3 billion that was going to be taken away from the original purpose of this bill, which was a disaster relief fund. So $1.3 billion is scheduled to go to California under this bill. Again, the reason for this bill even being here is because of the earthquake disaster in California. The amendment of the Democratic leader takes $1.3 billion, takes that away, and replaces it with a whole bunch of other programs. What we do is leave the money there, take his programs away and, in fact, reduces the deficit by $1.3 billion more. We think that is the general direction that we should try to reduce the deficit and programs that we believe merit further scrutiny and reduction without being disruptive here in the middle of a fiscal year.”