Political Quotes

“The budget agreement that we passed is an important step forward for our country and for our government. I know Chairman Patty Murray worked tremendously hard to get to a conference in the first place and to reach this agreement with the House. I commend Chairman Murray for all of her work. The U.S. Government has been lurching from crisis to manufactured crisis and using short-term stopgaps to fund the government. The threat of a shutdown and the lack of uncertainty has hurt our economy and has eroded the American people's confidence in our ability to solve problems. It is our job to produce a budget and to figure out a way to work together and not shut the government down. That is what the people expect of responsible leaders in a divided government. This budget agreement is the way to move forward. It ends the reckless threats of government shutdown and lays a clear path to end sequestration. The sequester hit my home State of Hawaii very hard. The across-the- board arbitrary cuts from sequester have been devastating for our middle-class families and to our economy. I wish to read a letter that I received from a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in September. He wrote: I was contacted today, as I often am, by a student wanting to join our graduate program in the Department of Geology and Geophysics.…”