Political Quotes

“I appreciate Senator Durbin's comments, and I believe there is clear bipartisan support for dealing with the Zika virus. And something will be done on that, but make no mistake-- there is a disagreement, and our colleagues on the Democratic side, as they always do, just want to add whatever new expense comes up during the year to the deficit of the United States of America. There are many ways we can save money to pay for new expenditures, and that is what Senator Cornyn is talking about. He wants to have it paid-for so we don't add more debt. You say: How can that be? Well, we are already in debt. This year we borrowed approximately $540 billion to fund the government. We spent $4 trillion and we borrowed $540 billion of that. That is a very large number. It is unsustainable, and it is getting worse. We have to start paying for things that we want to do around here and make some choices and set some priorities. That is the entire dispute about this matter, if you want to know the truth about it. There is no way we can't find the money to fund this Zika challenge--sufficient funds to do that--within the spending we already have. NOMINATION OF PAULA XINIS”