We're perfectly willing to spend more money on educating American people if the control of that money is in the local communities, under the local school boards, |
We're trying to make good law and we're expecting it to be signed, |
We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns. |
What this 'sunset the code' bill does is ... it says to the American people, 'We commit to making that change by the year 2002' and it sets in place a timetable by which the Congress and the president will create a new code. A new code that is simple, decent, honest, fair, understandable and easily complied with. |
What we're not willing to do is to get ourselves into some complex negotiation with the White House where they initiate some increase in spending ... We just don't believe that is a dignified process, |
Whatever happens, it will take years to repair the damage President Clinton has done to his office and his country, |
When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply: "If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?" |
Whether it's reducing a particular tax or reforming the entire tax code, the issue is fairness, |
Whether that comes from work between Norwood and the White House, or whether it comes from our work here in the House in getting the votes for this bill that we think is the right answer, or wherever it comes from, we will do the right thing. |
While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence. |
would pretty well kill it for this year. |
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. |
You sit down as you're moving the bill through the process and you review the situation in light of the new numbers, ... And it would be our job to persuade the president. |