Political Quotes

“first, I commend Senators Kennedy and Bayh. They have really fought the battle through the years, and it has been since fiscal year 2003 we have been dealing with the need for the uparmor. As my colleague from Alaska said, and I add this, from fiscal year 2003 to 2005, the Congress added--that is additional funds--added $1.2 billion to the President's request to increase uparmored humvee production, and almost $1.9 billion was added to the President's budget request to increase the production of ballistic add-on armor for tactical-wheeled vehicles in the Army and the Marine Corps. I think we have clearly met the demand, and it is largely owing to these two Senators who have been out on the point on this issue. But right now these additional funds, I say to my colleague from Alaska, if the Senate were to approve the amendment, would have to be taken out of other modernization programs for the Army; am I not correct?”