Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, once again, here is the budget document. Here are spreadsheets. I keep hearing: You are giving away to billionaires. Where is that? Where is it? Madam Chair, it doesn't exist because this is a box that allows us-- and understand, Madam Chair, I am passionately concerned about debt and deficits, but this may be, for an idiot like myself, the first opportunity where members of leadership and those are ready to allow people like me to come in and walk through how we can improve and change the costs of how we deliver services, and we need this type of document to do it. Madam Chair, you deal with the reality of what we are allowed to touch. You do realize the majority of mandatory spending we are not even allowed to touch in a budget reconciliation because it is interest and Medicare is the majority. Every day we wait to modernize, we are in that much more trouble. The last thing before I do a yield here. We are going to spend $86 trillion, and I am partially doing this off the top of my head, over the next decade. This budget reconciliation we are hoping to get, let's say we are blessed and we get $2 trillion in offsets, so that creates a couple trillion dollars in additional borrowing, we are talking a fraction, a couple percent of the spending, Madam Chair. I would argue this is the moment for us where it is not about cuts.…”