Political Quotes

“the Senator from Texas, in the amendment that he offered here this afternoon, beginning at about 2:30 in the afternoon, seeks to eliminate every one of the President's initiatives, every single one of them, and he adds an $87 billion cut in discretionary accounts on top of that; $187 billion in total discretionary cuts which are essentially unspecified. Now, in particular, he thus advocates eliminating the President's proposal to fund the Intermodal Surface Transportation Act, education funding, Head Start, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and, Mr. President, the list goes on and on. He claims that his cuts are totally out of nondefense accounts, but there is no enforcement mechanism here at all. And I say to my friend from Virginia [Mr. Warner], who I know has a profound interest in protecting the defense discretionary accounts, should this amendment pass, defense would have to take its chances along with domestic spending on this 187 billion dollars' worth of cuts in discretionary spending that the Senator from Texas is urging upon us. The Senator from Texas is making these very substantial cuts in discretionary spending to pay for tax cuts. He is paying for tax cuts that go up and down the income scale. He is giving each family a $500 tax credit. Now, that sounds grand, and everyone is for that in the abstract. But, Mr.…”