Political Quotes

“The other is interesting. No. 1, we do not waive the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 631, which sets aside 23 percent of the dollar volume of all defense contracts must go to small business. The Javits-Wagner, No. 2, is all products manufactured by the blind and the handicapped. We do not touch that. No. 3, section 7309, shipbuilding, we do not touch that. And No. 4 is the Barry amendment, and that covers textile, food, and speciality medicine. I draw my colleague's attention to those points. He might wish to review it himself and make amendments to his opening statement. Mr. President, I say to my colleague again, it is fascinating in a sense. He goes on about what we put into this bill, which I think in a very modest way strengthens America's position, in my judgment. For example, his bill goes after one Department, the Department of Defense; am I not correct? I say to my distinguished colleague, the Department of Defense is among the few Departments of our Government with contracts generating a surplus. The area in which the Senator from Minnesota wants to go to preserve jobs is in other Departments and agencies of the Federal Government. Let me point this out. We had $63 billion in defense sales in the last year--$63 billion--to nations all over the world. We bought only $5 billion of weapons from other nations.”