Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I guess you have got an agreement there with Iran to do nonproliferation work? The reason we have some excess money is because the agreements with Russia, when things got a little cold between our two countries, some of those agreements kind of went by the wayside. I would like to know what the projects are. If there is something that somebody has come up with, if there are agreements to do those types of things. You can't say: I want to spend another $97 million on top of the $733 million. If that is accurate at $190 million, we've got $733 million to do it right now. So why throw another $97 million on top of it? It just doesn't make sense to me. Mr. Chairman, I urge opposition to the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes appeared to have it.”