Jerry Moran: “So many of our brand-new colleagues seem to have run on the thesis that government can't be the solution to any of your…”

“So many of our brand-new colleagues seem to have run on the thesis that government can't be the solution to any of your problems, rather that "it" is the problem, that it can't be counted upon to help people, that it can't even be counted upon to invest in America's long-term interests. It seems as though, now that they've been elected, they're doing everything they can to prove themselves to be right. This is no way to run a government. A 2-week CR? Now, we don't have any great problem with the components of this CR except for the fact that it's 2 weeks. It should be a 7-month CR. In fact, we should really tackle the appropriations bills themselves. But if it's a 7-month CR, it shouldn't be a dump truck of legislation that includes in it virtually every controversial issue that this Congress has dealt with over the last 20, 30 years. This bill has more poison pills in it than Rasputin's medicine cabinet. Everything is thrown in here, and it was thrown in in the middle of the night.”