Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise to point out something that is pretty obvious to everybody, and that is that this process that we are going through right now can come across very complicated, but it is a broken budget process system. What I would like to see happen as we matriculate through the remainder of the Financial Services-General Government bill and as we move toward trying to get something done on Commerce-Justice-Science and Labor-Health and Human Services is that maybe we would have this moment of sobriety as a House and recognize that fixing this broken budget process is going to be essential if this Congress is going to be successful. We are sitting here today with a clock ticking and the sand is in the hourglass running right through to where on November 17 we could be facing a government shutdown. There have been many opportunities for us to complete our work on appropriations, move bills through the House, get them conferenced with the Senate, and get them signed into law. Of course, we are working against a deadline at the end of this year that will require a 1 percent sequester if we don't get all 12 bills through. So it is my fervent belief that Congress can fix this issue if Congress will recognize that it has an issue. I think the American people recognize it. We are looking right down the barrel of a government shutdown.…”