Political Quotes

“do not let the false hype from these sponsors fool you. All this amendment does is to stop the proceeds for any land sales from being used to pay down the deficit. It doesn't stop land sales. In fact, just last year, the author of this amendment passed a law to dispose of Federal land in Colorado. If you are from a State like mine, where the Federal Government owns two-thirds of the land and restricts our ability to do anything, everything--develop land; build houses, which we desperately need; even to fund our schools, our search and rescue, our police services--then, all of a sudden, we are told that when land sales occur, as they routinely do, we cannot use that to pay down our $36 trillion debt. This is disgraceful. We must vote it down. I encourage my colleagues to vote, emphatically, no. Vote on Amendment No. 2107 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on adoption of the amendment.”