Leonard L. Boswell: “I will recall again, if I could, for all of us that the President came up to Nemacolin here a few weeks ago and he…”

“I will recall again, if I could, for all of us that the President came up to Nemacolin here a few weeks ago and he shared with us and we appreciated it very, very much. We asked him there, can we see a budget? And he said yes. And that has come forth. None of us expect that to be a perfect document. We have the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) to work on that. We would like to see what they will produce and come forward with. So I am wondering, is this a criticism, what we are doing without a budget, is this a criticism of the President's ability to lead or is this a criticism of the folks to follow? We have got our work to do. We have not done it. Common sense would tell us we would not expect to do this with a business or a family. We have heard those comments made several times. We would not go ahead and do something to our family and plan a vacation and not have kids to have their shoes for school or whatever. We would not do that. Let us not gamble on our future. We do not have to. We have got a better situation. We do not have to do that. A little bit ago, someone referred to 1981. We do not have the luxuries of 1981. We do not have a $1 trillion debt. We have got $5.7 trillion. We ought to deal with it.”