Political Quotes

“let me now talk briefly about my budget point of order. I made one specific budget point of order, perhaps the most serious, which is that this bill, as it came out of committee, increases the deficit, pure and simple--the thing we constantly rail against, the thing we constantly promise we will not do any more of. It increases the deficit. However, that is not the only budget point of order. There are at least 11 budget points of order against this bill--the Senate pay-go point of order, which I just explained. In addition, there is new direct spending authorized by the bill that would exceed the Judiciary Committee's authorization levels for a 5- year period. In addition, there is new direct spending exceeding those authorization levels for the 10-year period. There are four points of order pursuant to section 403(e)(1) that lie against the emergency designations in the bill. We say we are for budget discipline. The problem is that whenever we want to bust the caps, bust the numbers, we just call certain spending an emergency. This is clearly not emergency spending. This is an important problem, but it is not an unexpected emergency, such as a natural disaster or an attack by a foreign government. There are also four similar emergency designations made under section 4(g)(3) of the Statutory PAYGO Act of 2010. So, again, there are at least 11 separate, distinct budget points of order that lie against the bill.…”