Political Quotes

“I want to salute the gentleman for the introduction of this resolution and try to clarify apparently some misunderstandings about where Republicans are coming from. We appropriately have taken the Social Security trust fund off budget and that is where it should always reside. That does not mean it is a sacred trust, because we have to remember that we have done this with other trust funds and we must remember our Democratic colleagues slashed $56 billion out of Medicare funding and we have got to remember our Democratic colleagues put that tax increase on Social Security without a single Republican vote in support of either of those two positions. So, we are going on record, we have made it clear where we are coming from, and I simply want to congratulate my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Flanagan], for introducing this resolution.”