Trent Lott: “2 years in a row in the Reagan administration, the Congress did not pass a single appropriations bill that was signed…”

we are working on when we are going to be able to get this up. I have a couple of points. One, we have a catch- 22. Our Members want to make sure they have a chance to offer amendments, and we want to do that. At the same time, our…

I have been watching the Congress pretty closely now for 35 years as a Member of the House and the Senate, and I have been involved in end of sessions 19 times in the Senate, but I must say, it is about as big a mess as I have ever seen…

I do think that the congestion problem is going to continue to grow until we begin to make tougher decisions.

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.