Political Quotes

“I appreciate the work of the sponsors on this difficult piece of legislation. There is so much we would like to do. But every American knows that when they are in debt, they have to cut back on spending. But Washington remains in denial. This bill is a statement that Washington does not take seriously the extraordinary dangers imposed by our debt. It is bizarre that we passed on to a committee of 12 the job of achieving deficit reduction while at the same time working to increase the deficit with bills such as this one. After the first 2 years of the Obama administration in which nondefense discretionary spending surged 24 percent--not counting the stimulus--it should not be difficult for us to find reductions that can be achieved in these three bills that have been cobbled together as a mini omnibus. But instead of doing the hard work and finding things we can reduce the spending for and bringing this bill in with a reduction--a real reduction--in spending, we now have a piece of legislation that is moving forward with increases. In fact, what this amounts to and what we are seeing in the committee of 12, the supercommittee, in their secret work is apparently a demand by our Democratic colleagues that taxes be substantially increased to fund the spending level we have been on. I recently also addressed some of the gimmicks I believe this bill uses to conceal more spending than is apparent.…”