Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to speak briefly again on my amendment as to the sale of F-16C/Ds to Taiwan and respond to the comments of the distinguished chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Baucus, who said this was neither the right bill nor the right time. I understand every manager of a bill wants a clean bill; in other words, they do not want amendments. They would like to bring it here and have the Senate pass it without any changes whatsoever. But that is not the way our system works. Indeed, it is actually urgent we get this matter settled in a positive way because, as I mentioned earlier, there are 23,000 jobs in America that depend on this sale--many of them in the production line in Texas--but there are jobs all over the United States that depend on this. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a document titled ``Projected Nationwide Employment Impact of Production of 66 F-16C/Ds for Taiwan.'' There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: PROJECTED NATIONWIDE EMPLOYMENT IMPACT OF PRODUCTION OF 66 F-16C/DS FOR TAIWAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ State Job--Years* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alabama (AL)............................................ 168.6 Alaska (AK)............................................. 0 Arizona (AZ)............................................…”