Political Quotes

“Madam President, I wish to express my appreciation to Senator McCaskill, who is a person of courage and conviction and made a decision that we need to do better in our country about spending. As she said, is a simple truth. Our amendment is a small but significant step. It is a statement that we are going to take some action that will have some benefit in containing the growth, not requiring cuts but containing the growth of spending in our country. Unfortunately, as we have gotten so close to having it passed, now an organized effort appears to be underway to try to see if they can pull back a growing number of votes that have been cast for it. We started out with 56 votes, then went to 59 votes. Every Republican and 18 Democrats voted for it. We just need one more vote and we will be able to take this significant step of having a statutory cap on spending. The level of spending we are limiting it to is the level in the Democratic budget that passed this year. The amount is not anything other than what the budget already calls for that was passed by a Democratic majority. It is the kind of numbers we probably could do better on and we probably could and should cut some programs. Regardless, what we are saying is, one of our big problems is we do not stick to whatever budget we have. We constantly violate the budget. Republicans have done this too. The debt now is spiraling out of control to a degree we have never ever seen in the history of our country.…”