Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I suggest that given the way this body operates and the Congress has operated over the past several years since I have been in Congress, we have not seen very many reserve accounts set aside for debt reduction that are not raided continually for spending in Washington, DC. The Senator can say that money is set aside, and that is a nice little accounting mechanism, but the fact is we will spend that money and then some increases--whether it is supplemental appropriations without caps, since we do not have caps now, we would be flying through that money and we would be blowing through caps as we have in the past. Second, I did say the tax dollars would not be given to the American public. They would be back in the budget and, yes, they would be used to increase spending in Washington, DC. The fact is, it does not fund the President's priorities or the Nation's priorities with respect to national security, No. 1. No. 2, it does take money that was targeted hopefully for the pockets of the American taxpayers and brings it back to Washington to be spent. No. 3, and I quote the Washington Post headline, ``Senate Democrats Tap Social Security in Budget Plan.'' I hear over and over how these horrible Republicans want to raid Social Security and raid the Social Security trust fund. The budget we have before us, in the words of those who use this lingo, ``raids the Social Security trust fund.'' It is horrible to suggest that, but it does.”