Political Quotes

“I thank my friend for yielding the time. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this legislation. This is legislation that we Blue Dogs have been fighting for for many, many years. And it's very satisfying that it is coming to fruition today. I'm not here to play the blame game. There's a lot of blame to go around about our Nation's budget deficit. What we need is an instrument that gets us back on a pathway of fiscal responsibility. And we know that PAYGO works. It worked in the 1990s. And I should also say that it was a Republican President who proposed it. President Bush, Senior, was the one that thought this was a good idea. President Clinton thought it was a good idea. And it resulted in budget surpluses. Now we've got problems with our Nation's budget deficit. There's no question about that. This is the instrument that gets us back on track to fiscal responsibility. And so I join my colleagues on this side of the aisle, and I would hope a few others on that side of the aisle, to get us back on that path. This is the right thing to do, and after many years, it's finally a reality.”