Timothy Roemer: “It seems to me that we have two questions here: A question of process and a question of bipartisanship. On the question…”

“It seems to me that we have two questions here: A question of process and a question of bipartisanship. On the question of process, the American people have hired us in the 106th Congress to do a job and to finish a job and to not shirk, to not neglect, to not ignore those responsibilities for either reasons of politics and Presidential elections or reasons of convenience and push off those decisions to the 107th Congress. We have been paid to make those decisions. We should make those decisions in this 106th Congress. Mr. Speaker, the second question that I think is important is a question of bipartisanship. Do we have one individual, a Speaker or a President, that can stand up and say either stand down and I want it my way 100 percent or shut down the government? That is not the way this process and this body works. Nobody is going to get exactly what they want nor should they.”