Political Quotes

the challenge with Congress is that we create commissions and we create task forces and we look at problem sets, and we develop potential solutions, and then there is no real mechanism to give them the force of law

Ladies and gentlemen, it was an entirely different situation. Forget the fact that Republicans and Democrats were working better together, we were not in the fiscal hole we are in now.

This fiscal commission is going to force us. It is going to bypass leadership, it is going to get to the floor and actually be able to be voted on.

I can only characterize this new commission proposal as the proverbial definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.