Political Quotes

“If the gentleman from Michigan is ready to close, I'll do the same and yield myself the balance of my time. I regret the last statements. It is not correct to say that the President has not been interested in deficit reduction. That is not true. It was the Republican leadership in this House that walked away from a big package. So I think it is troublesome that you come here apparently saying you're going to vote for this bill by launching an unfair, untrue representation of what's been going on. I want it to be very clear, because my guess is that the chairman will talk again that there has been a permanent level of revenue set by this bill. That is not correct. If that's an effort to get votes on your side, I want the record to be clear. I'm going to close by reading from the President's statement of yesterday: I want to make clear that any agreement we have to deal with these automatic spending cuts that are being threatened for next month, those also have to be balanced, because, remember, my principle has always been let's do things in a balanced, responsible way. The same is true for any future deficit agreement. Obviously, we're going to have to do more to reduce our debt and our deficit. I'm willing to do more-- He already has done substantial. --but it's going to have to be balanced. We're going to have to do it in a balanced way. And then he talks about the need to address Medicare. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”