Susan Davis: “The President was right last week when he said that nobody won after last week's political spectacle--instead, it was…”

“The President was right last week when he said that nobody won after last week's political spectacle--instead, it was America that lost--but I am glad that we finally came together and reopened the government. If we had followed the Republican plan, we would only have funded 17 percent of the entire Federal Government. Such haphazard funding is really a recipe for a long-term, manmade disaster--a colossal failure to invest adequately in our Nation's future. So, in the next few weeks, we will have an opportunity to come together and, once and for all, put these funding battles behind us. We all understand that agreeing on a budget will not be easy, but that doesn't mean we should wait until the last minute to start talking to one another. Let's get back to work now and start the process of figuring out how we can agree on a balanced and reasonable fiscal plan that puts middle class American families first and the American Dream back in reach. ____________________”