There's plenty of lore, but none of it you can publish in a family newspaper. |
This has not been an easy job. So how do we pay for it? We made some tough recommendations. |
This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to. |
This is the first time that a Republican president has come to a Democratic Senate caucus to talk about his vision of the next four years, and I think there wasn't a lot of substance discussed. It was very symbolic, |
To suggest that these African-American leaders would somehow shortchange their own citizens is absolutely without merit, |
We believe this new proposal represents improvement in the personnel flexibility provisions [from the original GOP proposal]. |
We cannot continue to have the same program that we have, ... [Medicare] is now noted more for what it does not do than what it does do. |
We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to, |
We don't suggest that because San Francisco citizens live on top of an earthquake fault that they should be moved, ... The question of whether New Orleans should be rebuilt, one of the great cities of this country, is not really a question in my mind. |
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved. |
We've been hollering about funding for years, but everyone would say: There goes Louisiana again, asking for more money. We've had some powerful people in powerful places, but we never got what we needed. |
We've seen this many, many, many times, ... I mean, it's getting to be a punishment for this whole country and for those of us who have to sit there as well. |
When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense,' |
where do you get the money to pay for it? |
You can't have a law that says you have to have all votes in at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and then another law that allows you to have a hand recount that obviously is going to take more than just 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. They're in conflict, so a court I think has to resolve that conflict. |