Cord Byrd: “I am talking about Mitch Daniels, the Director of OMB. He is always meddling, always meddling in the Congress, in its…”

“I am talking about Mitch Daniels, the Director of OMB. He is always meddling, always meddling in the Congress, in its work and in appropriations. Not only that; he is always lecturing the Congress. I have never mentioned his name publicly until now. But I am fed up to my ears also. The appropriations process is being mangled. It is being maimed. It is being murdered at the hands of someone who is not elected by the people of this country. What bar of judgment does he stand before? I repeat, ``Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is become so great?'' I want to voice my disappointment in the circumstances that have brought about a cancellation of this appropriations conference today. But I am just fed up. I am tired. I am tired of this mangling of the appropriations process. Here is this outfit, blows into town like a tornado and they are going to change the tone in Washington. And the tone has been changed.”