Political Quotes

“House Resolution 817 is the rule that provides for debate on House Concurrent Resolution 376, which is the Federal budget, the bill that establishes the Federal spending priorities for the United States Government for fiscal year 2007, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for the outyears in 2008 through 2011. As a member of both the Rules Committee and someone who serves on the Budget Committee, I am pleased to bring this resolution to the floor for the House's consideration. This rule makes in order three substitute amendments, three different viewpoints on the direction that Federal spending should take for the coming fiscal year. Each of those will be debatable for 40 minutes. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution. I come to the floor today, Mr. Speaker, with a resolution that allows us to complete the debate and passage for the House budget resolution for fiscal year 2007. It is a work product over many, many weeks, beginning with Chairman Nussle and Ranking Member Spratt in the Budget Committee, along with all of the Members of this House to bring it to fruition here today. The resolution continues policies that have helped to continue a strong U.S. economy. We have included savings for working Americans with $228 billion in further tax reforms.…”