Political Quotes

“In all those years on the Budget Committee--it is actually 11 in all; 6 in the House, 5 in the Senate--I have never seen the majority party, whether it was Republican or Democrat, not put forward a budget. I have never seen such a dereliction of duty. I miss my Budget Committee chairman. I want to send him a card: ``Looking forward to seeing you.'' I like working with Chairman Pete Domenici. We do not even meet anymore, Mr. President. We are not doing our work. And now on an emergency supplemental bill, where the people who have been suffering are counting on us, we move a piece of legislation on to that bill that has nothing to do with a natural disaster, that has to do with a budgetary fight which is an admission of surrender by the people who are offering it that they cannot play by the rules of the game, by the laws of this Congress which say you must have a budget on the floor by April 15.”