On the recordDecember 12, 2001
One cannot do both at the same time. Now, I sympathize with the gentleman, because I know he is personally in favor of what we are trying to do. So are many other Members on the Republican side of the aisle. They have told me that. His problem is he has been ordered by his leadership, no matter what, to stay under the $20 billion ceiling. He knows he cannot win a vote against this motion, and so he is accepting it to try to leach all meaning from the vote. Yet you cannot hide from the fact that this motion to instruct says we should ignore the $20 billion artificial limit and meet the legitimate security needs of this country, both in the defense budget and in homefront defense. That is what this motion says. If people want to try to play it both ways, I understand the gentleman's dilemma, but that does not make his position any more real.
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