Cord Byrd: “I hope that Senators will stop whining and weeping and bemoaning that vote. Let us get on with balancing this budget…”

“I hope that Senators will stop whining and weeping and bemoaning that vote. Let us get on with balancing this budget that they want so much to do. Let us get on with doing something for our children and grandchildren, which the Senators say they want so much to do. And, first of all, may I say to my friends on the other side, stop talking about Mr. Clinton until you yourselves are willing to vote for a deficit reduction package that he helped us to work out. You did not demonstrate your willingness to do that. The Senator from Oklahoma was not here at that time, of course. But Republican Senators did not demonstrate a willingness in 1993 to exercise a little discipline, a little steel in the backbone. They used the excuse, and still use it, that it increased taxes. I say, let them haul down the banner, haul down their own party banner of a tax cut. It is silly--silly--whether you use the old math or the new math.”