Political Quotes

The Constitution says that the appropriations process is the power of the purse. You are ignoring that. You flout the Constitution every single day and you have been doing it for the last year and a half … we’re not going to continue to…

“Providers around the county were shocked by what was such an unpredictable action,” DeLauro said, thanking state leaders for leading that outcry in Connecticut.

I am deeply fearful that, at a time when appropriators must come together to defend our power of the purse, the path the majority has chosen will only survive to degrade the efficacy and credibility of what we are doing in this room.

When would you reevaluate budgets? Who would check the executive branch? What if Congress never weighed in?