Political Quotes

“in the time that I have been in the Congress, which includes 6 years in the House of Representatives and now in my 17th year in the Senate, I have been a part of or witness to or voted on numerous spending proposals and appropriation bills, tax bills, deficit reduction bills, and debt-limit increase bills through the years, and I don't think I have ever seen in all my time in the Congress a spending bill where Democrats didn't want to spend more and Republicans wanted to spend less. Maybe that is consistent with our overall governing philosophies. Republicans historically believe in limited but effective government, in personal freedom coupled with individual responsibility, in economic freedom, and in peace through strength. Those are sort of guiding principles. So when you get into a debate about spending and budgets and appropriation and taxes and all those sorts of things, in all the time I have been here--and I say this with respect to the bill that we are going to be voting on here in a few moments--Republicans try to spend more efficiently, more effectively--less, because they know that every dollar that gets spent here is coming from an American taxpayer. So when the bipartisan legislation that the Senate will vote on here momentarily was being considered, it started out at about $2.5 trillion. That is what President Biden wanted to spend on infrastructure.…”