Political Quotes

“It is going to be real easy, real short. In November, the House of Representatives was returned back to Republicans. It was in a much wider kind of popular margin when you add up the votes that we won across the country through the House of Representatives, slimmer in terms of the number of seats we picked up, but we got it back. Why would Republicans go along with a huge spending bill like this one? It has happened every year since I have been here--no budgeting, no appropriations that even an appropriator like myself can look at because it is done behind closed doors. And all we have got to do is get this into the next Congress. Congress funds the government through CRs all the time for the wrong reason--because they don't do the homework; they don't do the regular order. It kicks the can down the road consistently--standard operating procedure. It is a slap in the face to those voters to let the outgoing House majority set the agenda for the next 10 months. We shouldn't fund the government with huge omnibus bills in the first place, and we shouldn't give Pelosi--current Speaker Pelosi--a going- away present when she has been part of the process for all these years. We should actually do a budget like it is supposed to be done, and we should not do this as we are heading into a new Congress. I yield back to the Senator from Utah.”