Political Quotes

“I respect the subcommittee chairman's comments. I do not think he or the Appropriations Committee or the chairman of the full committee are the problem. They recognized this problem last year when they asked the State Department to take additional action. The State Department took additional action, and I believe they asked to be included in this emergency appropriations bill. We need help in the regular appropriations cycle. We will need that help not just this year but every year for probably the next 10 years. It is a modest amount. All we are asking for is $7.8 million to add to the $2.2 million that was appropriated last year, the $10 million a year that this part of the State Department has been saying since 2003 that they need to avert disaster. So tonight I would ask all of my colleagues to join with us in meeting an emergency with an emergency appropriation, and then we will strive to work together in a positive, bipartisan way to address what I know the committee recognizes to be a real, genuine, urgent problem. The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mr. Gingrey). The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett). The question was taken; and the Acting Chairman announced that the noes appeared to have it.”