Political Quotes

“I disagree with the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina on the basis of what I have seen here in the years that I have been here. I have a great deal of faith in the Committee on the Budget. I have a great deal of faith in the gentleman as the ranking member and the chairman, but I have seen this process literally almost collapse in recent years. My judgment is that the transparency that the gentleman requests is not there and that the reality is that the Committee on the Budget's responsibility is to do something which we have not been doing which is to make sure that we are managing within the dollars that we have and setting parameters around those particular dollars but should not carry over to the functions of how the individual amounts of money are going to be spent. In addition, we do not necessarily match up the appropriations with the various designations in the budget resolution which we have. It is my sense we need to break that impasse in some way or another so that we have some sense of the dollars we are spending in the House and the Senate and be working together in order to advance as far as the future is concerned.”