Political Quotes

“a little common sense in our Federal budget process might really go a long way. I know our constituents back home would approve. For the last 2 days we have been debating the nonbinding budget resolution. It is a blueprint though for our spending for the next year. After all of the rhetoric and the smoke has cleared, the majority party will pass their budget. I guess the spending buck and the deficit buck stops there. Under the majority plan, the deficit will go down. That is good news. But the bad news is that we are still going to have a daily deficit of a half a billion dollars. I guess we only go broke a little slower. Common sense would tell us that we have not done enough. We would be critical of the average American family in Bloomington, IL if they handled their budget this way. And we have an alternative. I encourage my colleagues to consider the Kasich budget. We save more money, $152 billion. We put money in there for welfare reform, for health care reform, for immigration reform. It is just so simple, just common sense. It is time that we addressed the need to cut spending. Do it now and bring our budget in balance. The Kasich budget has enough pain in it for all of us. But it is good. it is on the right track. Let us do it now. It is common sense.”