Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have been a member of this Chamber for a while now, and during my time here few of our colleagues have done more to expose waste and duplication and overspending than our colleague from Oklahoma Senator Coburn. I am, of course, cognizant of the fact that Senator McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona, has quite a reputation himself in this area. I am pleased to join both of my colleagues, along with, I anticipate, the junior Senator from Arizona, to talk about some very important work Senator Coburn and his staff have done to help highlight the savings we can find within the Defense Department budget due to duplication and waste and failure to exercise reasonable management practices, such as audits. We can save money and reallocate that money to help our fighting men and women in uniform, help keep them safe and help maintain America's role as a preeminent military leader in the world. Senator Coburn has pointed out in a new report I am sure he will talk about that we can save more than $60 billion by consolidating half the Federal Government's duplicative programs. Each of these programs has its own overhead, and through consolidation we can eliminate that overhead and still make sure the same amount of money is used to deliver the particular service. For that matter, if we were to consolidate just a third of the renewable energy programs, we could save $5 billion alone.…”