Political Quotes

“this is very disturbing that the minority leader has objected to taking the budget to conference because the only way to get a compromise on the budget is to take it to conference, as the chair of the Budget Committee has asked us to do, to work out the differences between the Republican version of the budget and the Democratic version of the budget. Right now, President Obama has some ideas about what his budget would look like. The Democrats and Republicans passed a budget here. The Republicans have passed a budget on the House side. The only way to work that out is following the leadership of the chairman of the Budget Committee, who is a senior Member now of this body, who understands regular order, understands the art of compromise, understands that there is a Democratic-controlled Senate, a Republican-controlled House, and a Democratic President--all who have legitimate but varying views about how the budget should be worked out may I say, a very important subject for the people of the United States because we are running deficits as far as the eye can see. While we have made some progress in cutting substantially--and we have raised some revenues--it is important to get our budget better in balance so we can grow this economy, keep this recovery going, stop throwing cold water on the recovery that is underway, and help Americans get jobs and create business.…”