Political Quotes

“I understand that. All I am saying is that money is going to be spent next year. That money is going to be spent next year. And in the appropriations bill that deals with these different accounts, we are saying we want to keep it under that cap, and that means to find money other places in the legislation, absolutely. That means that we are going to have to reduce other accounts to make sure we stay within those caps. This is about, in our opinion--I know the Senator from Texas agrees-- controlling the growth, controlling Government spending. What we are doing is saying, there is in fact a budget that says there is so much to spend, and whether we declare an emergency or not we are going to stay within that. If we declare an emergency, we can spend the money for that particular purpose --fine--but it is still going to stay in the aggregate cap for our total spending. That is the point we are trying to make.”