Political Quotes

“I would like to thank the gentleman for his amendment. I raise questions about this amendment for the same reason that I raised questions about the previous amendment, and that is, you know, we are at a point here in our economy in this time where we have high unemployment. We have our deficit that has just passed over the trillion dollar mark for the second year in a row. We have increasingly excruciating debt that we're going to be passing on to our children and grandchildren, and yet we're still going to be creating a grant program in this bill that's going to cost the taxpayers $250 million-- significant dollars at a time when people are losing their jobs or cutting back or making decisions in their own lives about the ways to afford the things that they not just want but they absolutely must have and need. And while, you know, further education and outreach is always a good thing, I think now would be a good time for us to make a statement in this bill by saying, not now, not this time, not this $250 million.”