Pete Domenici: “I believe much of the delay on everything is attributable to the fact that the majority party has not yet as of this day…”

“I believe much of the delay on everything is attributable to the fact that the majority party has not yet as of this day produced a budget. So if we want to talk about delays, as chairman of the Budget Committee, my good friend, you do not know what number to mark to. Nobody has yet told you how many dollars you have to spend. If the budget does anything, it starts with that. It also ropes in, in some good and major way, the entitlements that are supposed to come up the remainder of this year and next year. We do not have that around either. That is one of the reasons we keep getting 60 votes for every proposal that might be something that we ought to be considering for the American people. It is given an added burden because we do not have a budget. So I have said this, not as many times as some have urged me to say it, but I have said we need a budget.”