Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, there are two aspects. One is a budget debate, and it is fascinating. We are having this passionate debate about $115 million, and we didn't, apparently, have that debate when we passed the budget resolution that the sponsor of this amendment voted for that added $4 trillion to the debt. All those passionate speeches about the debt, the deficit, and its impacts are absolutely real, but how can you ignore that and vote for the $4 trillion debt and be all passionate about $115 million? Also, it is not true that we do nothing for the American people. It is somewhere around a $6.5 trillion budget. This is $115 million. Let's not act like we are not funding those other priorities. We are funding those other priorities. The second piece of this is, does this benefit the United States of America to spend this money to help the rest of the world deal with disasters? As I explained earlier, it 100 percent does. Would it make sense for us, as the gentlewoman has suggested we are doing, to fund every single crisis all around the world? No, it wouldn't, and we don't. We spend $115 million to try to help the rest of the world with public health disasters and natural disasters, which does benefit us. All the arguments about the debt and the deficit, please don't take those seriously from a group of people who just voted for increasing the debt by $4 trillion.”