Political Quotes

“yesterday this failed Congress failed to act on the national budget resolution. Apparently the budget resolution advanced by the Gingrich leadership was so bad that even some of our Republican colleagues could not stomach it. In fact, I quote from a leaflet that one of them sent out, Do we want the deficit to go back up, the budget resolution conference report shows the budget deficit going back up again, reversing the gains made in the past 3 years. He could have added, under President Clinton. And he is exactly right. Their resolution increases the budget deficit, and he urges the House to reject the conference report. These are the same Republicans who in the name of deficit reduction said they were willing to cut Medicare, the same Republicans who in the name of deficit reduction shut down the Government with their antics of last year. Yet now that we have an election coming along, they are willing to let the budget deficit soar. Those of us who backed the conservative coalition budget have a better way. Balance the budget now without unbalancing the budgets of American working families and without wrecking Medicare.”