Political Quotes

“I join with the Senator from Oklahoma. Senator Feinstein's second amendment, I think, is a positive amendment and one that maybe we can work on and get it accepted on both sides. I think it is a good amendment. I am not as enthusiastic about the first amendment. In defense of Senator Hutchison, who really did an outstanding job on this side of the aisle in working on the issue of formulas and trying to bring some compromise into a very difficult issue, nobody is happy with allocations of formulas, as the Senator from Oklahoma said. There are States that win; there are States that lose. What we tried to do is hold at least everybody harmless. We did under the formula that is in the Dole bill and then provided some reasonable amount of money for growth. I guess what is really the bugaboo here is how we determine what growth is and what is fair. I suggest to you that if the Senator from Texas [Mrs. Hutchison], were here, what she would say is what is fair should not be based on what is--a system that you receive money from the State based on how much money you put up, not on how many poor people you have but how much money you are willing to give to the poor people in your State.”