Wayne Allard: “I wish to say how grateful and what an honor it has been to serve with the current budget chairman. He has done a great…”

“I wish to say how grateful and what an honor it has been to serve with the current budget chairman. He has done a great job. He has been a great leader in the Senate. This is the last budget with which he is going to be involved in the Senate. He is thorough, he is straightforward, meticulous and has put together some good budgets since working with him as chairman on the Budget Committee. We are going to miss him in the Senate. He has done a yeoman's job in putting together this budget. Like he said, putting together a budget is not simple. It is always easy to criticize a budget, and that is what I pointed out during the Budget Committee hearings. All we are hearing is criticism about this item and that item, but nobody is putting together a total budget, laying it before us and explaining what they are going to do to eliminate deficit spending. I think back to last year, for example, on the floor of the Senate when we were debating the budget. It was the same situation.”