Political Quotes

“I rise this afternoon to support the amendment offered by the distinguished Senator from Iowa. With this amendment, Senator Harkin, I believe, wisely directs resources toward the chronically underfunded domestic programs and away from a single, consistently overfunded military program. What the Harkin amendment seeks to do, as he has explained, is increase funding for Federal grants to State and local governments for community policing and drug patrols, while reducing the planned funding increases for the ballistic missile defense programs. But Senator Harkin's amendment, unlike many of those we consider in this body, offers specific program cuts to pay for his proposed increases. I commend the Senator for taking that approach. It is always very easy to come up with a nonspecific spending reduction to pay for an add-on, but the Senator is taking the responsible approach, I think, in stating specifically what he would reduce to pay for the amendment that he is offering, therefore, making his amendment deficit neutral.”