I think this is a test of character for the Republican majority in Congress, ... The American people are watching and waiting. |
It is imperative that those most in need receive assistance and that no resources are wasted, |
It is not acceptable to take a catastrophe of nature and turn it into a catastrophe of debt, |
It is our sense that the American people want Congress to do something ... to pay for Katrina, and anything less than that will be a disappointment to millions of Americans. |
It is wrong to raises taxes in the wake of a national disaster and risk a recession. |
It would be marginal cuts, |
It's simply time we restore fiscal discipline to this process and pay for these expenditures by making choices among competing spending priorities. |
makes a powerful case that Congress should reconsider before we create this massive new government entitlement. |
My wife informed me it was there that she had taken our 9-year-old daughter on Sunday night to purchase their fall mums and bring them home. Happily reporting to me she had parked safely in a covered garage at that Home Depot, ... There but for the grace of God goes my family. |
No one wants to have an argument with friends, but that argument facilitated the debate that led to the package [of cuts] that [House Speaker J. Dennis] Hastert has now put out there. |
Now is the time for us to begin to make the tough choices necessary to ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and our grandchildren. |
Now is the time for us to begin to make the tough choices. |
Now is the time to make tough choices to ensure a catastrophe of nature doesn't become a catastrophe of debt. |
pay for the cost of Katrina by reducing the size and scope of government. |
so I know what both sides are up to. |