Transparency is the best disinfectant. If they would disclose everything and give the public time to review it, that would change the discourse dramatically. |
Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks. |
We considered it one of the worst items in the bill. It's a slush fund for the oil and gas industry that would have been in the backyard of one of the more powerful members in Congress. |
We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way. |
We used to think that Mr. Lewis would be a champion for smart spending. But he brought us the biggest increase in defense earmarking in history. |
We will learn months after the money was wasted or stolen that it was wasted and stolen. |
We would have been much, much better off with no bill. Everything they did, there's a simple way around it. |
We're supposed to be protecting the victims of the storms, not the people insuring them. |
We've been in budgetary La-La Land. |
We've known for years that there are some easy things on paper. But it's politically hard to limit the budgetary footprint of the federal government. Any item you try and cut, you're going to tick off an 800-pound gorilla that fights with a sledgehammer. |
With all these new programs, the administration's contention that the deficit will be cut in half in the next five years is a tall tale, derived in large part by omitting very likely or inevitable costs, including costs for proposals the administration itself hopes and intends to support. |
Write everyone a check -- it's cheaper. |
You can't single him out. It is standard procedure. |
You can't treat the Congress like they're a bunch of buzzing flies around your head, ... They're your bosses because they represent the American taxpayers. |
You know how they call Vancouver 'North Hollywood'? Well, Alaska could become 'North North Hollywood,' |