Political Quotes

“I was interested in the Senator from New Mexico's comment about leaving this to the Parliamentarian, as though the law assigns certain responsibilities to the Budget Committee. The way I read the law, the four references out of the five in the Budget Committee's report, it is the Budget Committee--not the Parliamentarian, but the Budget Committee--which makes the determination at the budget level when there is a point of order. Suddenly, it becomes unnecessary to be specific about assigning this function to the Budget Committee. Why are we shy here about assigning the same function to the Budget Committee, which is to try to figure out what a mandate costs, when we have made that same assignment to the Budget Committee--not the Parliamentarian--to the Budget Committee over and over and over and over again, in the Budget Act? I said four "overs" because I got four sections of the Budget Act.”