Political Quotes

“I join Senator Domenici in thanking my colleague, Senator Ashcroft, for his very thoughtful comments on the budget. Those of us who work on the numbers sometimes get lost in the trees and fail to see the forest. But I thought the Senator from Missouri did a very effective job in explaining why this budget is so important to the working American in the average family who sits around the kitchen table and tries to figure out how to spend their money and wonders why those of us in Washington cannot spend our money with the same kind of discipline. Today is April 14. It is an ideal time for us to consider this final version of the budget resolution. While so many of our constituents will be staying up late tonight to finish their own income taxes before tomorrow's deadline, we look like we are going to be able to meet an April 15 deadline of our own. The Congressional Budget Act created a deadline of April 15 for Congress to adopt its budget for the upcoming year, and this year looks like it will be only the second time since the Budget Act was adopted in 1974 that we in Congress will meet the deadline and will deliver a budget on time.”