Political Quotes

“I wanted to say a few words in support of the continuing resolution that the House of Representatives passed that we are going to be voting on here in another hour or so. It is H.J. Res. 48. This is the second short-term funding extension to prevent a government shutdown while our congressional leaders are negotiating to try to reach an agreement on a long-term plan to keep our government working through the end of this fiscal year ending in September. The short- and long-term continuing resolutions under discussion are leftover work from 2010 to finish the job of funding the government, as I said, through the end of this fiscal year. Notably, the spending cuts that have been achieved so far are really the first meaningful spending cuts the Congress has passed since the Deficit Reduction Act which was enacted in February 2006. The House-passed 3-week CR or continuing resolution, which runs until April 8, includes $6 billion in spending cuts, which will keep the Congress on track to implement the overall $61 billion in spending reductions which are included in the long-term CR. Enactment of this short-term measure would mean that in just 5 weeks we will have cut $10 billion from this year's spending, and because of the adjustment in the baseline, that means that over a 10-year period of time, we will have saved the taxpayers $140 billion. Even in Washington, DC, that is real money. The cuts in H.J. Res.…”