Political Quotes

“I congratulate him and the gentleman from Wisconsin for the outstanding job that they have done on bringing this most extraordinarily difficult bill thus far. The fact is, as has been just said by the gentleman from Wisconsin, we currently have a consensus which offers to the Members of the House a bill which fundamentally intact can be presented to the Senate, and if it comes back in roughly the same way, we have every expectation will be signed into law, without all the controversy and the rancor that has taken place in this bill in years past. I would urge all Members to consider that we went through an exercise in the spring on the disaster relief bill to guarantee that government would stay open and that the Government would be funded at last year's level if we could not reach an agreement. Because of a Presidential veto, that discussion became moot. But we do not have to have a cataclysm. We do not have to disrupt the people's business and erupt into a major political warfare this year if we would understand that we do not, any one of us, get everything we want.”