Political Quotes

“I really want to focus on just sort of the broad outline of what I am trying to accomplish in these amendments. There are really three subjects that the amendments deal with. The first subject really is the immediate subject, which is, are we going to offset the money that we spent here in the Senate bill with other spending reductions in the bill so we do not add to the deficit this year? That is the first issue. The second issue is, do we get a bill out of conference that does not add to the deficit? Third, what do we do long term to deal with the issue of disaster relief? Let me address all three of those, if I can, and discuss the amendments that I have to take those subjects on. First, the Senate bill. We had an amendment by the Senator from Texas and me. Senator Gramm and I put forward an amendment to offset the spending with an across-the-board cut in all the nondefense discretionary appropriations accounts.”