Political Quotes

“we made real progress this week in passing a very important bill, the Homeland Security appropriations bill, under the leadership of Chairman Judd Gregg, who did a superb job on a very important bill which adds billions of dollars to issues we spend a lot of time talking about and debating but that puts real money, real resources where they are needed: over $14 billion for issues surrounding tightening our borders, increasing the number of border security agents by 1,000, increasing the number of detention beds by over 1,000, and well over $14 billion for border security and immigration issues. It is a very important bill. Over the course of this month I also intend to address other issues surrounding securing our homeland, issues such as the Department of Defense authorization and our military construction bills, all of which focus on getting money down to where it is needed, protecting our homeland, supporting our troops here and overseas. Also, it was an interesting week in that we had very positive economic developments announced with not just the 5.4 million jobs that have been created over the last 30 months or so, not just the low unemployment--4.6 percent, which is lower than the average of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s, but the fact that the deficit is coming down much faster than anyone had anticipated.…”